**Title:** The Cartography of What Remains **Author:** Eva Schep **Series:** The Going Back Series, Book 1 **ISBN-13:** 9798181912144 **Publisher:** Independently published **Publication date:** 25 August 2026 **Page count:** 248 **Format:** Paperback (also available as Kindle ebook) **Language:** English **Source (non-bookseller):** https://eva.schep.eu/
**Description:**
Two years after her partner's death, Lena has made her life manageable: the chipped cup on the left side of the sink, the bread folded twice in its bag, the keys in the bowl by the door. She restores damaged photographs at an Amsterdam archive and labels what cannot be known — date unknown, man unknown, life unknown.
Then she discovers she can go back. Not remember — return. Stand in the old kitchen. Watch Tomas ask her a question she didn't hear the first time. But memory is not a room, it is a map drawn in pencil: every visit erases a detail of him, and Lena is running out. A short novel about grief, the archives we make of the people we love, and the harder journey — the one back to the living.
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*This is my own book; I am the author. The link above is my author site and shows the cover, blurb, and full publication details.*
**Author:** Eva Schep
**Series:** The Going Back Series, Book 1
**ISBN-13:** 9798181912144
**Publisher:** Independently published
**Publication date:** 25 August 2026
**Page count:** 248
**Format:** Paperback (also available as Kindle ebook)
**Language:** English
**Source (non-bookseller):** https://eva.schep.eu/
**Description:**
Two years after her partner's death, Lena has made her life manageable: the
chipped cup on the left side of the sink, the bread folded twice in its bag, the
keys in the bowl by the door. She restores damaged photographs at an Amsterdam
archive and labels what cannot be known — date unknown, man unknown, life unknown.
Then she discovers she can go back. Not remember — return. Stand in the old
kitchen. Watch Tomas ask her a question she didn't hear the first time. But
memory is not a room, it is a map drawn in pencil: every visit erases a detail
of him, and Lena is running out. A short novel about grief, the archives we make of
the people we love, and the harder journey — the one back to the living.
---
*This is my own book; I am the author. The link above is my author site and
shows the cover, blurb, and full publication details.*