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- ISBN 9781915290205
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2026
- Publisher: Tramp Press
- Publication City/Country: IE
- Product Form: Paperback
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Sophie and her five children, still raw from tragedy, relocate from
Canada to her partner Derek's childhood home. There they attempt
to forge a new life together - but their new family is shadowed by
grief, myth, and a lingering sense of the uncanny.
Through shifting perspectives, from Jules, the delicate middle
child, to fierce Ema, to volatile Angelo, debut author Juliano Zaffino
paints an unforgettable portrait of love, loyalty, and the stories we tell
ourselves to survive.
Blending psychological suspense with intimate family drama,
and with echoes of Virginia Woolf and Shirley Jackson, The Steps is
both deeply moving and eerily unsettling, a meditation on trauma,
family bonds, and the thin line between tenderness and violence.
Juliano Zaffino obtained a BA in English Language and Literature from the University of Oxford in 2016, a Masters in
Shakespeare Studies from the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham) in 2017, and is currently undertaking a
PhD on 'Cutting Shakespeare' with the Shakespeare Institute and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Zaffino founded YourShelf, first as a bespoke book-subscription service, in 2016. Over time, YourShelf
expanded to encompass the YourShelf Press, which published the author's own poetry collection and Rebecca Lucy
Taylor's SELF ESTEEM (2021), and the YourShelf Podcast, where he interviewed a variety of writers from Lauren Groff
to Doireann Ni Ghriofa. The author also introduced Florence Welch to the Strasbourg dancing plague of 1616, which
inspired her 2022 album Dance Fever.
