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Welcome to the TRB Lounge. Today, we are featuring author S.A. Sterling for her latest release, AWAKE: Notes from the Quiet Hours.

Book: AWAKE – Notes from the Quiet Hours
Author: S.A. Sterling
Publication Date:  25 October 2025
Genres: Creative Nonfiction, Memoir/Personal Essays, Women’s Personal Growth/Midlife Reflection, Mindfulness & Self-Reflection, Contemporary Journal, Midlife Diaries
Page Count: 75
Formats Available: Kindle, Paperback
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About the Book

2:47 a.m. Again.

For two years, she woke in the quiet hours—when the house slept, when the world felt suspended between night and morning. In that stillness, she began to write.

AWAKE is a collection of sixty nights lived in real time: the hum of insomnia, the weight of perimenopause, the questions that surface at 3 a.m. when defenses are down.

These pages don’t offer solutions. They offer presence.

For anyone who’s ever felt alone in the dark hours, this book is company.

You can find AWAKE: Notes from the Quiet Hours here:
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About The Author

S.A. Sterling

S.A. Sterling writes about real life: the quiet struggles, late-night thoughts, and moments that push us to grow. She’s lived across oceans, taught languages for years, and met women from all walks of life who share one thing in common: the desire to keep showing up, even when life gets messy.

Her latest book, AWAKE: Notes from the Quiet Hours, was born from sleepless nights and honest reflection. Before that, she wrote Ride On!—the story of Dame Sarah Storey’s extraordinary journey of resilience—and several books designed to help women navigate everyday life with more clarity and courage, including Executive Functioning Skills for Women with ADHD, The 369 Manifestation Journal, and The Women Rising Strong 2024 Workbook.

She lives in northern Italy with her husband, where she teaches, writes, and keeps a pot of lemon water on her desk for the early hours that refuse to sleep.

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