Published books by Madeleine Watson
Welcome — and thank you for exploring the stories that shaped me.
My books weave together memory, identity, twinhood, and the
symbolic language that has followed me since childhood. Each one is part of a
larger journey: uncovering hidden truths, reclaiming lost narratives, and
finding meaning in the fragments we carry.
Below you’ll find my published works, each with its own
doorway into the world I’ve been piecing together.
MIRROR IMAGE SHATTERED: A Twin’s True Story
Mirror Image Shattered is the story of a life lived in two directions at once — outwardly ordinary, inwardly fractured. It follows my journey through childhood, trauma, and the discovery of another twin living inside me, a revelation that reshaped everything I thought I knew about myself.
This memoir blends diary entries, memory fragments, and symbolic imagery to explore what happens when the truth finally surfaces after years of silence.
TALES FROM DALER COTTAGE: Unearthing the Hidden Messages within my Children's Stories
Written as a schoolgirl, Tales from Daler Cottage is a
collection of short stories filled with seaside mysteries, ghostly encounters,
and the strange magic of childhood imagination. These stories are whimsical,
eerie, and deeply rooted in the inner world of a girl who wrote to make sense
of everything around her.
They offer a glimpse into the creative beginnings that later shaped my memoirs and artwork.
THE
LESSONS: The True Story of a Parasitic Novel
A nineteen‑year‑old aspiring novelist begins writing a dark psychological story, unaware that the act of writing is awakening something buried deep inside her. The Lessons follows the strange, compulsive “strand” that took hold of her life as she drafted a tale about a psychopath in a house called The Hollows — a story that seemed to have nothing to do with her quiet village existence. Thirty years later, she uncovers the devastating truth behind that strand, revealing a hidden narrative that had been writing itself through her all along. Illustrated with diary excerpts and artwork, this is a true account of a novel that became a mirror.
THE LOCKED
DOOR: The Secret Room behind the Kidnap Thriller
What
begins as a straightforward kidnap thriller becomes a psychological excavation
of the author’s own hidden past. The Locked Door tells the story of Gemma, a
hostage trapped in an upstairs room, cutting a hole in the floor to spy on her
captors — but behind this fictional plot lies a second, shadow novel the author
never knew she was writing. Decades later, she discovers the disturbing truth
encoded in the story’s compulsive “strand,” revealing a subconscious message
she was too young to understand. With diary entries and illustrations, this
true account exposes the double‑life of a novel that was never just a novel.
NORTH
WINDOW: The Stranger behind the Reflection
An
insomniac who leads a double life. A single mother who senses danger the moment
she enters a shadowed apartment. North Window appears to be a psychological
thriller about surveillance, obsession, and fear — yet beneath the surface lies
a second, hidden narrative the author only discovered a year after finishing
the book. This true account explores how clues from her own life leaked into
the story without her awareness, forming a double‑storyline that stretches back
to her childhood writing. With diary excerpts and illustrations, North Window
reveals how fiction can become a coded confession.
NADIA: Testament of the Ghost Girl
Written
more than thirty years after its conception, Nadia follows a woman thrust into
a nightmare after a chance encounter with a billionaire. But the real story
lies beneath the plot. As the author completed her fourth psychological
thriller, a single scene unlocked a horrific truth about her own life — a truth
she had unknowingly woven into the novel. This book examines the hidden
“under‑novel” she could not see at the time, revealing how her subconscious
shaped the story long before she understood its meaning. With diary entries and
artwork, Nadia is both a thriller and a revelation.
BLOOD IN
WATER: Eight Short Stories
Eight
short stories written between 2011 and 2014 explore unsettling worlds: a family
secret, a lonely worker, an ex‑convict’s fractured mind, the making of a bully.
On the surface, they appear unrelated — yet all share a single theme the author
never noticed: alienation. Years later, after uncovering a devastating truth
about her past, she realises these stories were signalling something she could
not consciously see. Blood in Water combines fiction, diary entries,
illustrations, and analysis to reveal the ghost‑language running beneath her
work.
BLOOD ON
THE CORN: Uncovering the Assault Sites of my Toddlerhood
At
fifty‑one, a buried memory erupts: the face of an uncle scarcely mentioned, a
truth long suppressed. Using diaries kept between the ages of eleven and
twenty‑three, the author retraces her childhood through the landscapes of her
village, uncovering the sites of assaults she had never consciously remembered.
Blood on the Corn is a raw, unflinching journey into a past overwritten by
silence, revealing how trauma shaped her life, her writing, and her identity.
WORLD OF
THE TORN EYE: Messages within my Childhood Projects
From
childhood onward, the author wrote endlessly about nature, science, weather,
wildflowers, and the human body — projects that seemed innocent, curious, and
wide‑eyed. But beneath the facts and diagrams lay a subconscious attempt to
illuminate something dark. World of the Torn Eye examines sixteen of these
projects, alongside children’s stories, artwork, poems, and diaries, revealing
the hidden force that drove her to write about everything except the one thing
she could not face. This is the true story of how knowledge became a shield.
TEARING
DOWN THE EYEWALL: And Digging up the Buried House
As a
teenager, the author became consumed by weather: tornadoes, hurricanes,
lightning, the eye of the storm. She built a weather station, filled
sketchbooks, wrote poems and stories — all while unknowingly running from
something she could not name. Decades later, she discovers the message hidden
within her obsession. Tearing Down the Eyewall is a true account of how a
childhood fascination with storms became a coded view through the mirror, and
how the truth finally broke through.
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