Standalone Guides — full-length books for specific chapters of the journey
Standalone Guides — full-length books for specific chapters of the journey

Stand-alone

Stand-Alone Books

Individual titles that belong to no collection.

Books that sit on their own. Each has its own subject, its own voice, and its own page.

The books

In the stand-alone books

  1. Single Again at 50 — first edition cover
    Single Again at 50 — first edition cover

    Guide

    Single Again at 50

    Starting Over Later in Life, On Your Own Terms

    A stand-alone guide for the particular experience of being single again later in life — not the acute heartbreak of a marriage ending in your thirties, but the strange, specific business of starting over at fifty, in a body and a life that don’t look anything like the ones you started over in the first time round.

    If you’ve read the rest of this series, you’ll know I eventually got somewhere good. A rebuilt life, a relationship chosen on purpose, a version of myself I actually liked. I’m not going to pretend that was the end of the story, because life doesn’t really work that way. Years later, for very different reasons than…
    From the opening pages

    £10.99

  2. The Second Chance — first edition cover
    The Second Chance — first edition cover

    Guide

    The Second Chance

    Building a New Relationship Without Repeating the Old Mistakes

    A stand-alone guide about the quiet fear that shows up once you’re finally ready to love someone again — the fear that whatever went wrong the first time is baked into you now, and that you’ll build the same thing twice without noticing. This book is about where that fear comes from, how it disguises itself, and what it actually takes to build something different the second time.

    There’s a particular fear that shows up once you’re finally ready to love someone again, and it’s rarely talked about honestly. It isn’t the fear of being hurt again, exactly, though that’s in there too. It’s the quieter fear that you’ll somehow build the same thing twice — that whatever went wrong the first time is…
    From the opening pages

    £10.99

Also from Billy’s Books: Billy’s Life Lessons — a second series on growing older, letting go of the job that used to define you, and building the next chapter on purpose.