After Amba by Stephanie Shields SIGNED COPY

After Amba WINNER of The Wishing Shelf Awards (TWSA) Gold Medal for Adult Fiction 2026.  

The Wishing Shelf Book Awards was started in 2013 and was set up to promote excellence in independent writing and publishing. It’s international, for books in the English language and is recommended by the Alliance of Independent Authors.

The new novel by the author of our biggest-selling book 'The Strange Woman'

The life of Amba Atha, travel and fashion writer, spans the first half of the twentieth century. As 'a New Woman' she flouts mores, climbs barriers and pushes boundaries. Then she dies in a mid-air collision.

Seventy years later, her brother Andrew hires a young research librarian, Frasey Fisher, to  bring order to Amba's archive. Frasey becomes captivated. possibly possessed. by her subject. Frasey is drawn into a love triangle that transcends class, time and death.

After Amba is a tale about women, about love and sexuality, and the power of the past over the present.