“Divorces are never beautiful,” Harrison states after overthinking his entire life. Once again. Divorce? Overthinking? Sounds like Harrison Selleck, a 41-year-old divorced man who still grieves over the lost love of his ex-wife, despite the five years that have already passed. Harrison’s desperate to get some kind of relationship he got to know in the earlier stages of that marriage, but he’s also just very very awkward and not easy to handle. He played his luck with many women, tried to “get better” with several therapists and constant advice from his friends. Right when he’s about to give in his misery, he meets Annabelle.

Not once, not twice, three times until the both of them question why and most interestingly where they’ve met before. Unaware of the latter/very conscious of the signs by the universe, they go on a journey of surrendering to whatever is meant for the two. Slowly, Harrison & Annabelle learn to trust themselves and forgive parts of their pasts they’re unable to forget. Because at the end, there’s always a reason to why things happened the way they did and to why two people who lost their faith to true love run into each other.

Will Harrison be able to get his life together in order to finally welcome this new future and is Annabelle the missing piece to it or does he just need to flip the vinyl to the b-side?

Read Bonnie Orbison’s sophomore fiction novel and fall in love with all the puzzle pieces of It was her 🤍

Yearningly, Harrison looked back on the streets, hoping he didn’t lose the mysterious woman, but she was gone like she had never existed outside of his mind. Drowned in the typical after hours masses and traffic consisting of people trying to get home as quickly as possible.

None of them could know what this moment would mean.

None of them could know how important this moment was for their lives.

No one could know what the universe decided at this moment.

No one could know what the universe tried to whisper into their ears at this moment.

No one could know how their lives would change in the coming four years.

No one could know what would happen during these four years.

None of them know what would happen to the exact day four years later.

“My upcoming novel “It was her” is a British love novel about a 41-year-old divorced man trying to get his life together and learn to trust the universe. It’s coming out this November, and it’s the novel I’m the proudest of. I wrote this book from November 2020 to May 2021, and it mirrored many occasions and people I truly cared for. I always say that a book normally isn’t directly about myself, and still, I’d say that “It was her” reflects pretty well on the person I was back then.” ~ interview with NashvilleVoyager

“I feel like one piece glued together. It’s like my sophomore book baby "It was her” is a fiction story full of pieces 16-year old me cared and loved and not necessarily wanted to experience but wanted to see happen and be around. This 16-year old me is actually a very small character in this book. I’m not one of the two main characters. Back then, I put myself in a very clever and very cute way in. I can’t wait for you to read sixteen me out of it (if you do lol). I know I do.” ~ in her essay “Bonnie’s Reaching Out to the Stars”

“i wrote an entire novel about a 41 year old divorced man who can’t go on with his life as he still grieves the missing love of his ex-wife and can’t understand why she left him without putting her in any scene. i guess she’ll stay a mystery.” ~ on her IG profile

size: 6 x 9

ISBN: 978-3-9822170-4-8

written by Tabea Eberhart, known as Bonnie Orbison

released 11/29/2022

cover painting by Silvie Ruscombe-King