Whiskey & Other Warnings

Louise Fairburn is good at life.
She has a job people respect. A home that runs smoothly. A reputation for being calm, capable, and entirely unshakeable. She is the one who handles things. The one who copes. The one who never needs help.
It's worked for years.
Until it doesn't.
When the noise of everyday life quiets just enough for old feelings to surface, Louise begins to sense something she's long ignored - not a crisis, not a dramatic unravelling, but a quiet absence where something vital used to live.
As she moves through family chaos, unexpected connections, and the gentle nudges of people who refuse to let her stay on the side lines, Louise starts to question the version of herself she's been carrying for so long. The strong one. The sensible one. The one who learned early how to keep going.
Warm, funny, and deeply human, Whiskey & Other Warnings is a story about grief that reshapes us, the parts of ourselves we leave behind to survive, and the slow, brave work of finding our way back to who we were always meant to be.
Sometimes the biggest risk isn't falling apart.
It's letting yourself feel whole again.