When You're Grown
Starting at €3,800,00
Dear Parent, you have been composing this in your head for years. This is where it goes.
Some things a parent hopes to say are too important to be left to passing conversations. They belong to another time—to birthdays not yet celebrated, questions not yet asked, and moments that cannot be anticipated but are certain to arrive. This work preserves those words now, so they may be received when your child is ready for them.
Together, we create a literary record of your voice, your memories, your values, your family history, and the life you lived before they knew you. It becomes a conversation carried safely across time, allowing your child to encounter not only what you wished to tell them, but the person who wished to tell it.
Whether composed as a series of letters or as one continuous narrative, every commission is shaped around the way you naturally speak and remember. Through private editorial conversations, we preserve not only your stories but your rhythm of thought, your humour, your expressions, and the qualities that make your voice unmistakably yours. Voice is not incidental to this work; it is the archive itself. Years from now, when the book is opened, it should feel less like reading about you than spending an afternoon in your company.
Choose Your Scope
Letter
A focused collection of carefully composed letters for a particular stage of your child's life. Ideal for preserving the thoughts, stories, and guidance you most hope they will carry with them into adulthood.
Story
An expanded narrative spanning multiple chapters of family life. This edition creates room for childhood memories, family traditions, personal reflections, defining experiences, and the moments that rarely find their way into ordinary conversation.
Legacy
Our most comprehensive format — for the parent who wants to give their child not only their own voice, but the full context from which it speaks: the ancestral history, the people who shaped the world they were born into, inherited values, and the longer line they belong to. It is written to be returned to throughout adulthood, revealing new meaning each time it is read as your child grows into a different stage of life.
Tailored
Define your own pagination and interview parameters with your editor. Pricing is adjusted from our starting rates according to the scope agreed.
On How and When It's Given
Some parents give it directly, in person, at a moment of their choosing. Others prefer to keep it somewhere safe — alongside a will, or with a solicitor or trusted family member — to be passed on at the right time regardless of what the years bring. If you would like the content itself organized around specific future moments (an 18th birthday, a wedding, the birth of their own child), we structure a single volume into clearly marked sections for each, so the right words are easy to find whenever they are needed.
Created For
- A parent who wishes to leave their child an enduring record of their voice, their history, and their guidance, regardless of what the future brings.
- A parent who has tried to write this themselves and found that while the feeling was there, the literary form was missing.
- Anyone who has understood that what they want and feel for their child deserves a permanent narrative.
What Is Delivered
- A series of private editorial conversations designed to preserve your stories, life philosophy, values, memories, and distinctive voice.
- A full original manuscript written precisely in your voice.
- Thoughtfully curated visual design, incorporating family photographs, documents, illustrations, and other meaningful archival material where appropriate.
- A collaborative editorial process, allowing every draft to be refined with careful attention to voice, emotional nuance, and lasting authenticity.
- A masterfully bound, heirloom-grade printed volume, accompanied by a complete digital edition.
Commission Details
We begin with a private consultation to discuss your vision and confirm scope. Payment is split into three installments: an initial deposit to begin gathering your story, a mid-point payment before writing begins, and the final balance upon delivery.
As each volume is an entirely bespoke commission, all agreements are treated as final. Our collaborative process — including listening sessions and review cycles — ensures complete alignment before fine production begins. Any rare printing or logistical issue is resolved personally and promptly.
Your heirloom volume is packaged and dispatched via secure, fully insured transit. We serve an international clientele, and all shipping considerations are included in your initial project quotation.