The Woman I Once Was
€24.99 – €44.99Price range: €24.99 through €44.99
The Woman I Once Was isn’t a story you finish — it’s a mirror you return to.
Written as a series of dated fragments, it follows a woman who begins with tenderness and ends with boundaries: love that enters like a knock, control that closes window after window, betrayal that turns the body into a courtroom, and the slow, brutal beauty of rebuilding the self without asking anyone’s permission.
This is not comfort. It’s clarity.
Not entertainment — a reckoning.
If you’ve ever loved too hard, stayed too long, or shrunk yourself to survive… this book will recognize you before you recognize yourself.
A book about the invisible stage every woman passes through—the moment she changes inside, and no one notices.
Some transformations don’t arrive as events. They arrive as quiet shifts.
A sentence breaks you. A boundary awakens. A version of you disappears without a funeral.
In THE WOMAN I ONCE WAS, you enter a house built from questions:
doors no one ever knocked on…
windows shut “in the name of love”…
and a thread of light that appears every time you think everything is over.
This is not a novel you close and forget.
It is a mirror:
once to read her story—
and once to recognize your own.
Read slowly.
Not because the language is heavy—
but because you may meet yourself in places you didn’t expect.
You may think you’re reading about another woman…
until you realize:
some lines aren’t on the page.
They’re in you.
Enter.
A house never opens the same way twice.
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Germany: 2–4 business days
Europe: 3–7 business days
Worldwide: 5–15 business days
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