Annette Byford: Psychotherapist and Author
I am a writer and psychotherapist
My first novel A Dance of Mirrors is now available in English following the German Edition
Profile
About me
My previous books
My new novel
Born and raised in Germany I moved to the UK in my twenties and have now lived and worked here for many decades as a psychotherapist.
Over the last 10 years I have written and published several books, starting with non-fiction books dealing with family dynamics closely linked to my thinking as a psychotherapist.
With "A Dance of Mirrors"
Born and raised in Germany I moved to the UK in my twenties and have now lived and worked here for many decades as a psychotherapist.
Over the last 10 years I have written and published several books, starting with non-fiction books dealing with family dynamics closely linked to my thinking as a psychotherapist.
With "A Dance of Mirrors", my first novel, I have now branched out into fiction.
I am married and have two adult children and two grandchildren.
My new novel
My previous books
My new novel
In post-war Germany, one secret rewrites two lives.
My new novel tells the story of a family secret growing out of the postwar years in Germany. It is based on some real events in my mother's life. Weaving around the central plot is the narrator's reaction to telling her mother's story: a psychotherapist and now an older woman she begins
In post-war Germany, one secret rewrites two lives.
My new novel tells the story of a family secret growing out of the postwar years in Germany. It is based on some real events in my mother's life. Weaving around the central plot is the narrator's reaction to telling her mother's story: a psychotherapist and now an older woman she begins to echo her mother's painful experience around love and broken boundaries.
While the book has at its center the fallout from a love triangle, it tells this story against the backdrop of post-war Germany, with the world of psychotherapy and the narrator's experience of being an older woman providing an extra dimension.
My previous books
My previous books
My previous books
I have previously published two non-fiction books which deal with family dynamics.
A Wedding in the Family (2019 Free Association Books)
Once a Mother, Always a Mother (2022 Free Association Books)
Both books were featured in the national press and on Woman's Hour.
Where to buy
Academic Writing
Lost and Gained in Translation: The Impact of Bilingual Clients' Choice of Language in Psychotherapy. British Journal of Psychotherapy. vol31:3. 2015
online, researchgate.net
Non-Fiction Writing
A Wedding in the Family. Mothers Tell their Stories of Joy, Conflict and Loss. 2019
Available in paperback in all bookstores.
Amazon , paperback and Kindle (tinyurl.com/ybacg9gh)
Once a Mother, Always a Mother. On Life with Adult Children. 2022
Available in paperback in bookstores.
Amazon paperback and Kindle
(tinyurl.com/mtahpz2c)
Fiction
Tanzende Spiegel. Ars Vivendi 2025
Available in bookstores in Germany
Also online Hardcover and Kindle: Amazon.de and Amazon.co.uk
"A Dance of Mirrors". Ars Vivendi 2026
Available in paperback in all major bookstores and online from 3th of July.
including Waterstone, Foyles, Blackwells, Amazon and hives.co.uk
Events
Book Launch Event in Berlin
Thursday 25.9.25
18.00
akiz_art, 7.OG, Mollststr. 1, 10178 Berlin
Book Launch Southampton
Book launch 4th of July 2026
12 -2
October Books
189 Portswood Road, Southampton SO17 2NF