For the Love of Maggie

Description

For the Love of Maggie is a fairytale for adults about what it truly means to be human.

It follows Maggie across eight decades, from the wild, imaginative girl who builds a kingdom in the treehouse her father made for her, to the woman who slowly trades that magic for a sensible life. As a child, her creativity is as natural as breathing. But people, unlike any other creature, are also capable of dismantling the very thing that makes them extraordinary.

The story unfolds through the Monsters and Fairies who live in Maggie’s inner world. The Monsters — Ego, the Judge, Conformity, Comparison and more — believe they are keeping her safe. One by one, they teach her to stay small. The Fairies — Courage, Curiosity, Play, Authenticity — never leave. They wait, sometimes for decades, for Maggie to remember the strengths she has carried all along.

This is a novel about the war between who we were born to be and who the world asks us to become. It is about love and loss, ambition and surrender, and the moment — sometimes joyful, sometimes devastating — when a woman finally chooses herself.

And it is about legacy: what that choice means not only for Maggie, but for every generation that comes after her.

Warm, aching and ultimately triumphant, For the Love of Maggie is for every woman who once had a treehouse — and still remembers what it felt like inside. Because creativity is not a talent reserved for the gifted few. It is a human capacity worth fighting to reclaim.

And it is never too late to find your way back.