{"product_id":"the-years-you-were-home","title":"The Years You Were Home","description":"Every other book about the empty nest tells you to reinvent yourself by the second chapter. This one stops first.\n\nIt begins with the day or week they moved out — the drive, the packing, the night that followed — and gives you eight pages to write it down before asking a single question about your future.\n\nWhat you gain is room to grieve honestly and then, at your own pace, a clear-eyed look at who you are when mothering is no longer the daily job.\n\nIt is for the mother whose last child has just gone, or is going, and who is proud of them and hollowed out at the same time. It is a thoughtful gift for a sister, friend or wife entering this season — and equally a book to buy for yourself.\n\nInside are 63 guided prompt pages, each with one question and wide ruled lines beneath it. There are pages for the first morning that is yours, for building social anchors against loneliness, and for choosing a quarterly focus instead of attempting a total life overhaul.\n\nThere are letters to write: to the mother you were, the woman you were at twenty-five, the woman you will be at seventy, your partner, and each adult child.\n\nAt the back is a five-year section to return to at the end of each year, allowing the journal to keep recording who you become long after the first difficult year has passed.\n\n100 pages across eleven chapters, with cream paper, generous white space and wide ruled lines made for a real pen.\n\nAn Analog Society book, published by Sovereign Publishing in Sydney.\n\nBook specifications\n\nFormat: Paperback, perfect bound\nPages: 100\nSize: 6 × 9 in\nPaper: 60# cream, uncoated\nInterior: Premium black \u0026amp; white\nBody text: 12pt\nCover: Matte\nSeries: Keepsake Series\nPublisher: Analog Society\nLanguage: English\n\nPrinted to order, one copy at a time.","brand":"Analog Society","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46432760660104,"sku":"epzk8g","price":29.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/3805\/9912\/files\/cover-the-years-you-were-home.jpg?v=1789265488","url":"https:\/\/analog-society.com\/products\/the-years-you-were-home","provider":"Analog Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}