A woman opens her car door, knocking a passing cyclist into the path of an oncoming van. The cyclist is Jean Harley. But this is not Jean’s story, nor is it the story of her death. It is the stories of the people she leaves behind. It is the story of her husband, her mother, her friends, her son, her former lover. And of the man who caused it all. Jean Harley is the glue that binds these and other voices in Heather Taylor Johnson’s heartbreakingly honest and original novel.

Jean Harley Was Here is a vivid exploration of grief, loss and what comes after.