Hometown

Martinette Williams

Sep 2026 · Book Guild Publishing

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400

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This book will become available on September 28, 2026. You will not be charged until it is released.

About this ebook

When fourteen-year-old Lainey meets nineteen-year-old Jannes in their quiet hometown at the top of New Zealand, she isn’t expecting anything more than a new friendship. But Jannes, who is on the cusp of leaving, awakens something in Lainey she can’t name, or forget about.

Told across fourteen years, Hometown traces the tender, complicated connection between two people as they drift apart and find their way back to each other. Through missed chances, unspoken feelings, and the quiet intimacy of shared moments, Lainey and Jannes circle one another as they grow into adulthood, each shaping lives that never quite leave room for what might have been.

Bittersweet and emotionally resonant, Hometown is a slow-burn love story about self-discovery and the pull of a person who has always felt like home.

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About the author

Martinette Williams is a singer-songwriter living in New Zealand with her husband and two children. She graduated from the University of Otago in 2012 with an honours degree in Film Studies. Her debut novel, Everything She Wanted, was published in 2025. Hometown is her second novel.

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