Books by Michelle Hay
Stories rooted in place, memory, and the complexity of human relationships.
The Lantern in the Valley
Contemporary Women’s Fiction with Mystery
What does it mean to choose your own path when the world expects you to stay?
Mireya carries a lantern into darkness, searching for light. Behind her lies the valley — safe, familiar, enclosed — with its inherited expectations and the ghosts of women who turned back. Ahead lies the cliff’s edge, where wind carries the scent of something unnamed: authentic selfhood, just barely out of reach.
A lyrical novel of belonging and becoming. For readers navigating their own crossroads — midlife questioning, inherited limitations, the shadow of roads not taken. Fans of Sarah Winman, Maggie O’Farrell, and Delia Owens will feel at home here.
The House on Dunehaven Lane
Historical Fiction — apartheid South Africa
A house that remembers everything.
When Naomi Price inherits her estranged grandmother’s house on Dunehaven Lane, she expects a simple transaction. Instead she finds a hidden room, private journals, and proof of a transformative love her grandmother hid for decades — and a resistance to apartheid that someone is desperate to keep buried.
A haunting story of courage, forbidden love, and the weight of family secrets, set against the brutal backdrop of apartheid South Africa.