Empty by M.A Ross

Pre-order: Due in 17.11.2025

Meet Bobby: Born ‘n bred Lewis girl. Millennial. Teuchtar. And self-confessed “cheery depressive”.

She’s sorted…sort of. With her own place, a steady income, and a tiny pool of trusted friends, she leads a blissfully uneventful life. At almost 40 and working as a petrol station attendant in Stornoway, she’s hardly broadened her horizons since leaving her home in a buttoned-up village just ten miles away.

She gets more pleasure from her favoured Marian Keyes books than she does from reality. She sometimes daydreams of a fuller life; one that’s not confined to the pages of her paperbacks. However, she fears that any deviation from her strict routine and rituals could potentially derail her delicate mental health, and that is simply a risk she is not willing to take. Not after last time. Or the time before that. She’s had too many close calls.