Life Lasts a Month

In a world where human life lasts only a month, everything moves quickly: childhood, work, love, illness, death. People build entire lives in weeks and leave houses, jobs, and memories behind for those who come next. Sarah Whitmore is approaching the end of her own life when an old dog named Numa leads her to something hidden inside the house on Hawthorn Lane. What she finds suggests that the life she remembers may not be the only one she has lived.
There are traces of other people, fragments of impossible memories, familiar places she has never visited, and animals that seem to recognize more than they should. The deeper Sarah looks, the more difficult it becomes to separate memory from identity, inheritance from coincidence, and the past from the life still happening around her. But in a world where every hour matters, searching for answers has a cost.
Life Lasts a Month is a literary speculative novel about mortality, memory, identity, love, and the strange things that may endure when a human lifetime is measured in weeks.