Rebecca Ley

Rebecca Ley is a British author and journalist whose fiction draws on deeply personal experience to explore love, loss, and the ways we remember the people who matter most to us. For When I'm Gone is a novel about a woman who, knowing she is dying, writes a handbook for her husband to help him raise their daughter without her. Ley wrote the novel after losing her own mother, and the book pulses with the emotional truth of that experience. It is both a love story and a meditation on what we leave behind. The audiobook and book versions offer listeners and readers a beautiful, deeply moving novel. Ley's work appeals to anyone who has experienced loss and to readers who appreciate fiction that confronts mortality with grace, love, and unflinching emotional honesty.