About Evie James

Something here may feel familiar.

Maybe it is a line.
Maybe it is a feeling you have carried for a long time.
Maybe it is part of your own life that has been hard to explain.

I know that feeling.

I’m Evie James. I’m a writer, an artist, and a mother of two boys.

The Fire and The Water began as a diary. I wrote it while life was still happening, before I understood what it all meant. Alongside the writing, I made artwork as a way of trying to make sense of things I could not yet say clearly.

The Ember and The Tide is the novel growing from that work.

There are men in these pages. There is love, grief, motherhood, art, loss, and the ordinary work of getting through the day when life has become heavier than you expected.

But at the centre of it is a woman trying to stay standing.

This is a story about surviving.
About raising children.
About a house that became a place of safety.
About making things when you do not know what else to do.
About slowly finding meaning in what you have lived through.

I do not have all the answers.

I am still learning.

But I write because I know what it is to need somewhere honest to put the truth.

And maybe, somewhere in these pages, you will find something that feels familiar.

Take your time.

Read slowly.

You are welcome here.