Stephanie Butland Books In Order

Publication Order of Lost for Words Books

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

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Stephanie Butland
Stephanie Butland is a friend to writers, a novelist, and an avid reader. There can never be too many books as far as she’s concerned.

When Stephanie’s not busy writing, she trains people to think more creatively. For fun, she knits, reads, sews, spins, and bakes.

She is a writer thriving after breast cancer. She once said she was a survivor, however that was a tad lacking in joie de vivre.

Even though she’d never have chosen it, her dance with cancer has changed her life in so many positive ways. Now she is healthier, happier, and so much more careful with her precious life and the precious people and the things in it.

Her writing career started with her bout with cancer, and is now a novelist.

She works with charities in order to help raise awareness and money in the hopes that cancer is going to be as scary as a wart.

“Surrounded by Water” is the first stand alone novel and was released in 2014. Elizabeth has her whole world turned upside down once her husband dies in this tragic drowning accident. So typical of her generous and kind husband, who was a respected police officer, to sacrifice his life saving a total stranger. Or so she thinks.

What exactly was her husband doing at the lake that night? And what if his death is not the toughest thing she’ll have to deal with? Elizabeth has to face the repercussions of her husband’s actions. While doing so, it appears that the end of Mike’s life is just the start of his wife really getting to know him.

“The Other Half of My Heart” is a stand alone novel that was released in 2015. Bettina May’s life veered off course in just one disastrous night 15 years ago. Bettina, while still reeling from the shock of losing everything she believed was hers, opens this bakery in a village and throws herself deep into the comfort of making bread.

She spends her days kneading dough and measuring out ingredients. She meets somebody. And she starts to heal.

Up until somebody that knows what happens that night steps foot into her bakery. In the pause of a heartbeat, 15 years vanish and she remembers a time that she believed was lost forever. Can she ever go back?

“The Curious Heart of Ailsa Rae” is a stand alone novel that was released in 2018. Ailsa Rae is learning how to live. She is just a few months past the heart transplant which (right in time) saved her life. Now she can finally be a normal 28 year old. She is able to dance. Climb a mountain. Wait in line the whole day for tickets to Wimbledon.

However she first must put one foot in front of the other. So far, things are just as bloody complicated as they ever were. Her relationship with her mom is at a breaking point and she’d like to locate her dad. Then there is Lennox, whom Ailsa both loved and lost. Is she ever going to find love again?

Her new heart is a bold one. She only needs to listen to it. From the hospital back to her childhood home, on social media and in real life, she’ll embark on this journey about what it means to both be and feel alive. How do we learn to be brave, to dare to dream, and accept defeat? This totally original, charismatic, and uplifting book is one no reader will soon forget.

“The Woman in the Photograph” is a stand alone novel that was released in 2019. 1968. Veronica Moon (a junior photographer for a local paper) is currently frustrated by her male colleagues’ failure to take her more seriously. Then she meets Leonie on the picket line of the Ford factory at Dagenham. So starts a passionate, tumultuous, and intoxicating friendship. Leonie’s ahead of her time and fighting for women’s equality with everything that she has. She offers Veronica a free and exciting life at the dawn of some great change.

Fifty years later and Leonie is gone, with Veronica leading a more reclusive life. Her groundbreaking career was ended prematurely by one of the most famous pictures of the whole 20th century.

Now, this controversial picture is hanging as the centerpiece of this new feminist exhibition curated by Leonie’s niece. Long-repressed memories of Veronica’s extraordinary life start stirring. It is time to break her silence, and return back into the life.

“Nobody’s Perfect” is a stand alone novel that was released in 2021. Does your past define your future?

Kate Micklethwaite, after her daughter was born with cystic fibrosis, vowed that Daisy would never be defined by her illness. Kate’s determined that her perfect little daughter be known for her love of croissants and butterflies and nothing else. Kate does all that she can to be the perfect mom, whatever that even means, and yet, somehow, has begun seeing herself the way others do: a single mom, a source of small town scandal, former mistress, and drop-out. Half a family.

When Daisy starts going to school, Kate meets her new teacher, the charming and kind Mr. Spencer Swanson. Now, with a lot more time on her hands, she can begin thinking about her own future. With her Open University dissertation deadline coming, she needs to decide what she wants next. However while she and Spencer get to know each other better, she notices that folks are whispering behind her back yet again.

“The Book of Kindness” is a stand alone novel that was released in 2025. How can you believe in luck, when you’ve got nothing?

September’s at her wits’ end. For all the time she spends working, there’s never enough money to support herself and her boyfriend. September has got nothing to ever look forward to. She merely plods along without any other option.

Then this letter comes. September, who got adopted as a baby, has just inherited a house from this great-aunt she never knew she had. It’d make sense to sell it. However when she visits for the first time and sees it, the garden, the orange gate, the tree, and the bumble-bee door knocker, she knows she doesn’t want to sell. Not just yet. Then the members of the book club show up, and she starts learning the tale about the family she didn’t ever know.

September realizes that she feels safe here. It’s home and she’s making some friends. This is just the start.