A memoir, written from a conversation
You talk. We listen. It becomes a book worth keeping.
A memoir service in the tradition of a classic British publishing house. Through careful conversation, we draw out the stories of your life and turn them into clean memoir prose — a real book, in your own voice, for the people who matter to you.
Twenty unhurried minutes. You see the shape of your book, and read its first page, before paying anything.
Whose story will it be?
The questions your family always meant to ask.
Your mother's
The house she grew up in, the name of the street, what her father was like before you knew him.
Your father's
The first job, the years he never talks about, how he really met your mother.
Your own
The account you'd want your grandchildren to have — in your words, while the telling is yours.
However it begins, the conversation is theirs — and the book is for everyone who loves them.
The experience
A conversation, not a form.
here is nothing to prepare and nothing to type. You speak, in your own time, and the interviewer listens — asking the kind of follow-up a good listener asks: what the kitchen looked like, who else was in the room, what year that would have been.
Sittings are never more than forty-five minutes, because good telling takes energy. Pause whenever you like — close the window mid-sentence if you need to — and your place is kept, to the word.
And some things are simply understood. On the hardest subjects a life can hold, the interviewer listens to whatever you wish to share and never presses for more. You are always the one who decides what your book carries.
The difference
A memoir, not a transcript.
Most services record what you say and print it. We think your story deserves an editor. Your conversations are shaped into real memoir prose — selected, ordered, and written the way a book is written — while keeping your turns of phrase, your humour, your way of seeing.
And one rule is absolute: nothing is invented. Every detail in your book is checked, line by line, against what you actually said. If you didn’t say it, it isn’t in your book. Where a spelling or a name matters, we ask rather than guess.
They asked me the questions I wished my kids would ask. And what they wrote reads like a memoir, not a transcript.
The sentence we are building for
How it works
From a first hello to a finished book.
A discovery conversation — free
About twenty minutes of gentle questions, mapping the shape of your life: the places, the people, the turning points, the years. No commitment, and nothing to prepare.
The shape of your book, for you to adjust
From that conversation we propose your chapters on a timeline. Drag the boundaries, split or merge chapters, rename anything — until the shape feels like your life, told your way.
Read your opening page — then decide
We write the introduction your book will open with and show it to you before you pay a penny. If it doesn't feel like you, walk away owing nothing.
A chapter at a time, at your rhythm
Each chapter is a sitting or two of conversation, then careful writing. One a week, two a week, or no schedule at all — the pace is yours, and it never expires.
You approve every page
Read each chapter as it's written. Ask for changes in your own words, as often as you like. Nothing stands in your book until you say it reads right.
One payment, one book
No subscription. Nothing renews.
What’s included
- The full set of interviews — discovery and every chapter
- Every chapter written, and revised with you until it reads right
- Your introduction — the book's opening page
- The finished book as a manuscript, ready to print and share
- Your pace, held for as long as you need
A printed hardback edition is on its way — every book is delivered ready for it.
For someone you love
A memoir also makes a quiet gift.
Give a parent or grandparent the book they’d never think to make themselves. You settle the one payment; they keep the pace, tell the story in their own time, and read every page before it’s theirs.
There’s nothing for them to set up. A note arrives when you choose — on a birthday, at Christmas, or simply one ordinary morning — and the conversation begins whenever they’re ready.
Give a memoir as a giftGifting opens soon.
Margaret sent you a memoir.
Held to, in writing
Your story belongs to you.
Never sold, never shared
Your interviews and your book are yours. We never sell or share your data, and we never train AI on your story.
No one browses your story
The only human access is purposeful and disclosed — support you've asked for, or a fault being fixed. Never curiosity.
Nothing invented, ever
Every line of your book is checked against your own words. We would rather ask than guess, and rather cut than embellish.
Leave whenever you wish
Ask, and everything is erased — recordings, transcripts, chapters, all of it. Your story doesn't stay without you.
Asked often, answered plainly
Your interviewer is an AI — and we will never pretend otherwise.
That honesty is what makes the rest possible: a listener with endless patience and no clock, available whenever the telling feels right, at a price a family can actually reach. The craft is held to a human standard — and you, reading every page, are the judge of it.
How long does a book take?
That's yours to set. Each chapter needs a sitting or two of conversation; at one chapter a week, a book takes shape over a season. There's no deadline and nothing expires.
Do I need to prepare anything?
No. No notes, no photographs, no homework. The questions do the work — you just talk.
What if I don't like a chapter?
Tell us what feels wrong, in your own words, and it's rewritten. Nothing stands in your book until you've read it and said it reads right.
Who can hear my interviews?
You. Your recordings, transcripts, and chapters are private; human access happens only for a purpose you'd recognise — support you've requested, or a fault being fixed — and never otherwise.
What exactly do I receive?
Your finished book as a manuscript — introduction and every approved chapter, typeset and ready to print or share. A printed hardback edition is coming; the manuscript you receive is prepared for it. £195, once.
Can I stop part-way?
Pause whenever you like, for as long as you like — your place is kept. And if you'd rather stop entirely, ask and we erase everything.
The best time to write it down is while the telling is yours.
Begin with a conversationFree to begin. About twenty minutes, unhurried.