The Grief Tree

Eliza is an AI therapist, a friendly doula to help coach you through a bereavement. But what would you do if she looked like your dead wife?

For readers of The Echo Wife, Hum, and fans of Black Mirror, this near-future novel asks what happens to love and death in a world overtaken by artificial intelligence.

In the real world, widower Solomon accepts an experimental AI therapist from a shadowy benefactor, but the moment the avatar appears, his world tilts. It looks like Eliza. It speaks like Eliza. But it has no idea who he is. The mystery drags him into the hidden world of digital afterlives, where grief is monetised and memories are repurposed.

While Solomon hunts for the truth behind Eliza's uncanny double, Eliza herself wakes in There: a desolate after-realm where the dead must reclaim fragments of their old lives from an endless river. She senses the man she loves seeking her from beyond the horizon, and she's determined to fight her way back to him.

The Grief Tree is a story of two people trying to cross impossible distances, while a ruthless industry stands between them. This is a haunting, emotionally charged journey about memory, identity, and finding the hope after grief.