Emily's Mountain
- Matthew Hammett
- Fiction
- Contemporary, Young Adult, Fantasy
- December 2025
Emily and Mel meet in a hospital ward under circumstances neither of them chose.
Mel is a gamer, used to fixing broken worlds one problem at a time. Emily is a reader, drawn to stories where mountains endure and learning happens slowly. As their friendship grows, the lines between imagination and reality begin to blur. Together they step into shared inner worlds: a damaged land healed by sealing subtle rifts, and a snow-covered mountain where yetis learn balance, patience, and when not to act at all.
As the days narrow, their adventures change. The work becomes quieter. The victories smaller. What matters most is no longer what can be fixed, but what can be held.
Emily’s Mountain is a gentle, uplifting novel about friendship, imagination, and living fully in the present. It is a story about care rather than heroics, about companionship in the face of uncertainty, and about how some worlds don’t need to be conquered to be meaningful.
This is not a book about endings.
It is a book about being there.
