Yellow Shelf Podcast

Other Lovers, author Natalia Rachel (Love Sex Poetry Peace trilogy series, book 1)

Johanna Fink, Host of Yellow Shelf

Other Lovers by Natalia Rachel is an intimate, emotionally astute novel about desire, secrecy, and the complicated stories we tell ourselves about love.

Centring on characters who find themselves on the margins of conventional relationships, the book explores what it means to want more than you’re “supposed” to want  and the quiet ache of living as someone’s second, hidden, or conditional choice. 

Rachel writes with sharp psychological insight, capturing the small moments where longing, guilt, and hope collide.

Rather than judging its characters, Other Lovers sits with their contradictions, asking tender but unsettling questions about fidelity, autonomy, and emotional truth. It’s a novel less interested in scandal than in interior lives  how people rationalise their decisions, the cost of secrecy, and the emotional labour of loving without guarantees. 

Subtle, reflective, and quietly piercing, it’s a book for readers drawn to morally complex relationships and nuanced explorations of modern intimacy.

Join Lena's epic journey of learning to love in this first book of the Love Sex Poetry Peace trilogy. Her relationships become her classroom. Her poetry becomes her process. And through the right friends and the wrong men she discovers the kind of love she deeply desires and deserves.

To connect with Natalia ...
www.nataliarachel.com/love-sex-poetry-peace
www.instagram.com/natalia_rachel_change/
www.nataliarachel.com/about
www.linkedin.com/in/natalia-rachel-9505b023/
www.youtube.com/@UC920mIYGYrtvqELJzisIFLw