A series of powerful, thought-provoking essays exploring themes of sex, religion,
motherhood, storytelling and more from British writer and Instagram literary phenomenon Emily Crane (@emilyrosecharlotte).

'What follows is not a tidy narrative. I am not a tidy person. These pages are made of
fragments, contradictions, jokes, confessions, and philosophical detours, because, well,
that is how life happens. In segments, in flashes, in inconsistencies. In moments that only
acquire an outline when we look back at them . . .'

In this book, Emily Crane brings her celebrated lyricism to the extraordinary and the
everyday: musings on God sit alongside stacks of washing up; thoughts on solitude keep
company with flying pigeons; reflections on creativity are prompted by sips of hot coffee;
and notes on writing slip in beside snails in her childhood garden.

Drawing upon philosophy, literature and memoir, and discussing themes from sex to
religion to girlhood to loneliness, In Search of Lost Thoughts is a welcome antidote to the
stresses and distractions of the world we live in. The result is a vivid and soulful account
of what it means to be a young woman today.