Hold the
Thread

A hyperironic novel about love, avoidant attachment — and the ways connection rearranges our identity

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About the book

Nothing about this story is dramatic. Which is exactly the problem.

The same moment can feel casual to one person and quietly life-altering to another — often without either of them noticing this mismatch in real time.

The same words are said. Different meanings are heard. One person moves on, slightly annoyed. The other rewrites their internal timeline.

This book doesn’t explain what human connection is or how it’s supposed to work. It simply watches how people experience it — unevenly, out of sync, each fully convinced they understood what just happened.

A hyperironic novel about attraction, love, loss, avoidance, and the strange talent humans have for sharing moments without sharing realities.

Iryna K. Aldoshyna portrait Iryna K. Aldoshyna portrait

About the author

Iryna K. Aldoshyna is a Ukrainian author with a background in translation, graphic design, and an unfortunate talent for noticing emotional subtext.

She dives into relationships by letting every character speak for themselves, giving them their own voice, their own logic, and their own version of what’s happening.

Hold the Thread is Iryna’s debut novel — a fully single-handed project where both the story and its visual form were written and shaped by one author.

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Where to buy

Available worldwide as an ebook,
paperback & hardcover
Available worldwide as an ebook
from June 2026