Lasting Dreams

You don’t need to sleep to dream

What if the life you built was never the life your heart chose?

Celebrity psychiatrist Gulliver has everything: a distinguished career and loving family. But beneath the polished surface, he is haunted by dreams so vivid they begin to feel more real than his waking life. As buried memories stir and long-suppressed desires rise to the surface, the fragile architecture of his world begins to crack. Set between the sensual shadows of Paris, the still waters of England’s canals, and the inner landscapes of memory, Lasting Dreams is an intimate novel about love and the ghosts we carry within us.

Gulliver, his wife Penny, and their closest friends Bryony and Peter, confront the secrets that have shaped their lives. Each must decide whether to keep living behind the identities they have built, or risk everything by facing the truth. As Gulliver’s life unravels, will Bryony’s poignant new painting awaken memories and guide them back to answers? Lasting Dreams is a luminous, deeply felt novel about memory, the past that never truly releases us, and the haunting persistence of love.