And For You, Everything Matters

Jane has always felt deeply: about the people she loves, the natural world around her, and the troubling realities of life. But beneath her intelligence, humour and fierce compassion lies a pain she can no longer manage alone.Struggling with grief, anxiety, depression and self-harm, Jane begins a series of sessions with psychiatrist Dr Paul Bridges. What starts as an attempt to understand her mental health gradually becomes something far more searching. Through conversations about childhood, family, love, loss, control, guilt and the death of her baby, Norah, Jane is forced to confront experiences and questions she has tried desperately to carry on her own.Yet Jane’s struggle is not confined to personal grief. She is troubled by the suffering she sees in the wider world and increasingly questions the values by which modern life is lived. What does it mean to live well when suffering cannot be avoided? How much control do we truly have? Can therapy provide answers to questions that are as philosophical and spiritual as they are psychological? And when life appears unbearably painful, what makes it worth continuing?Alongside Jane’s journey are her parents, Anne and James, whose warmth, humour, disagreements and enduring love provide another perspective on the questions she faces. Their conversations move between the everyday and the profound, exploring family, nature, science, faith, human connection and the possibility that meaning may be found not through certainty, but through attention to the people and moments that matter.And For You, Everything Matters is an intimate and thought-provoking literary novel about grief, mental health, family and the search for meaning. Tender, philosophical and deeply human, it asks how we continue after loss and whether, even amid suffering and uncertainty, there can still be reasons to hope, to love and to live.