The Book
A novel in progress
Fiction rooted in two decades of listening — to families, to children, and to the particular grief of never quite being from anywhere.
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Cover design: coming soon
About the book
Where do you belong when everywhere has been home?
Nicola Jane is currently writing her debut novel — a work of literary fiction that explores identity, belonging, and the hidden inner life of Third Culture Kids.
Drawing on twenty years of clinical experience as a family therapist, Nicola brings a rare psychological depth to her storytelling. The novel traces the lives of characters who have grown up between cultures — shaped by places they can barely name as home, and by the quiet, persistent question of who they are when no one culture fully claims them.
📝 Author's note — placeholder
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Themes
What the novel explores
Identity
Who am I when I am nowhere?
The novel examines how a childhood lived across cultures shapes the fundamental question of self — and what it means to construct an identity without a fixed geographical anchor.
Belonging
The cost of between-ness
Growing up as a Third Culture Kid means navigating belonging in a world that rarely has a category for you. The novel gives voice to this particular kind of longing and dislocation.
Family
The family as both anchor and wind
Mobile families carry tremendous love — and tremendous complexity. The novel explores how family systems hold, shape, and sometimes fracture the individuals within them.
The Author
Twenty years of listening, now on the page
Nicola has spent two decades sitting with the stories that TCKs and their families carry — stories of arrival and departure, of grief masked as adventure, of loyalty split between passports and languages and places that no longer quite exist.
Fiction, she believes, is one of the most honest ways to tell the truth about psychological experience. The novel is the culmination of that conviction.
"It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same."
— Sarah Turnbull, Almost French
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