Bloom Season

A novel imagined by Liz Reading
Cover art and concept by Liz Reading

Four women. Four seasons of life. Each season represented by a bloom: purple for spring, yellow for summer, red for autumn, and blue for winter.

Bloom Season follows four women as they navigate love, loss, change, and rediscovery. Like flowers, they bloom in their own time. Together, their stories form a garden of resilience, rooted in transformation and new growth.

Spring: A woman in early recovery from trauma begins a new chapter, learning to believe in her own strength again.

Summer: A mother who has always poured herself into others finds her identity unraveling as her children leave home.

Autumn: A successful artist returns to her hometown to care for a parent with dementia, reigniting old friendships and buried resentments.

Winter: A solitary woman in her seventies finds quiet renewal tending a greenhouse through winter, where small signs of life remind her she’s not done growing.

Acrylic impasto florals on canvas, mounted on textured canvas.