The G Club – A Powerful Grief Novel About Healing, Connection, and Unexpected Hope

Welcome to my site. The trailers and posts you’ve seen recently were leading here. This is my debut grief novel, The G Club.

The G Club follows two strangers living with grief. They cope in very different ways. Both are struggling to stay afloat.

Jamie is a counsellor. On his first day back at work after a personal loss, he meets an older woman who is further along in her own grief. By day, he tries to support her while keeping his professional life intact. By night, he slips into the hidden world of GHB, using the drug to numb what he cannot face. They do not realise it at first: they need each other to begin healing. Grief becomes something shared rather than endured alone.

This grief novel was written between October 2016 and February 2017. Then came months of rewrites. Friends and family read early drafts and gave honest, anonymous feedback. It was direct and encouraging.

I approached literary agents next. That process was harder than writing the book. One agent requested the full manuscript. It was not taken forward.

Around the same time, I read an interview with a well-known editor who said his own novel was rejected for being “too gay.” That landed hard. It made my decision clear. I chose to publish The G Club myself through Amazon.

The eBook is available to pre-order now. The paperback will be released on 4 December 2017.

If you read this grief novel and it stays with you, tell someone. Pass it on. Books like this find their readers through people, not gatekeepers.

What happens when grief is ignored rather than spoken? And what does healing look like when it comes from an unexpected place?