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Where every story begins.
One chapter from their life, written in their voice. A keepsake — and the door into everything that follows.
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A life, framed to last.
Cartouche turns a lifetime of true stories into a finished, book-length memoir — written in the voice of the person who lived it, and bound for the people who keep it.
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The voice behind Cartouche
Zara Grace
Novelist · Author of the Solstice trilogy
Written in their voicePrinted & boundA forever gift
I.An excerpt
Iwas maybe seven when I understood the power of words. I remember still the first book that made me cry — a child alone in a small room with flowered wallpaper, moved to tears by ink on a page. It astonished me. It still does. Words were not just for obeying. They could break your heart and mend it in the same breath.
Written in her own voice — her family knew her from the first line.
II.How it works
Three quiet steps between a life lived and a life read aloud.
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You share the memories.
Voice notes, old letters, a phone call with us. However they remember best.
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Cartouche writes the book — in their voice.
We shape their words into chapters. Nothing invented. Nothing borrowed. Only theirs.
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You receive it, printed and bound.
A real hardcover book, in your hands, with their name on the spine.
The voice behind the book
Meet Zara Grace.
Zara Grace is the novelist behind Cartouche — author of the Solstice trilogy, emotionally rich, slow-burn novels about resilience, found family, and the transformative power of kindness.
Her sensibility sets the standard for every Cartouche memoir: the patient ear, the sentence beneath the sentence, the refusal to flatten a life into a summary. For the Signature edition, she leads the interview herself.
NovelistSolstice trilogyThe Cartouche voice
III.Editions
Everyone starts with the first chapter.
One doorway in. Four ways it can grow — from a keepsake chapter to a full linen-bound heirloom, interviewed by hand.
Portrait
$690
A short book. A whole person.
A slim, hardbound memoir — the moments and people that shaped them, in roughly 60 pages.
Full Life
$1,500
The book they always meant to leave behind.
A full-length memoir bound in linen. Childhood to now. Family, work, love, the quiet turning points.
Signature
$3,500
A book worthy of the family shelf.
A human interviewer, a premium edition, gilded pages, a matching archival slipcase. One heirloom, one lifetime.
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IV.The waitlist
Save your place. We'll open the first chapter to you first.
No payment today. Just tell us who this is for, and we'll write you when the doors open.