And Suddenly, A Table For One Is Not Scary Anymore

A New Book by Sonali Sharma

And Suddenly, A Table For One Is Not Scary Anymore

There was a time you dreaded it. The empty chair across from you. The silence that felt like rejection. The solitude that felt like proof – proof that you were too much, or not enough, or both at the same time.

This book is for that version of you.

The one who kept shrinking to fit into spaces that were never built for someone who feels this deeply. The one who mistook abandonment for truth. The one who carried wounds like they were debts owed, wounds that were never yours to carry, from people who never bothered to apologise.

What’s the Book About

And Suddenly, A Table For One Is Not Scary Anymore is not a self-help book. It won’t hand you a five-step plan or tell you to think positive. It won’t rush your healing or dress your pain in pretty language to make it easier to swallow.

What it will do is sit with you.

In the mess. In the in-between. In the 2am moments when you’re still trying to understand how someone could leave so easily when you would have stayed forever. In the quiet mornings when you’re learning, slowly, stubbornly, to choose yourself.

Through raw prose, vulnerable reflections, and the kind of honest questions no one dares to ask out loud, this book walks the real road of healing. Not the Instagram version. The actual one, where you go backwards before you go forward, where some days the wound feels fresh all over again, and where the most radical thing you can do is simply refuse to abandon yourself the way others did.

The Shift

By the end, something shifts.

The table for one, the one that used to feel like punishment, starts to look different. It starts to look like peace. Like power. Like a whole life, finally set on your own terms.

Who is the Book for?

This is for the empaths. The over-givers. The ones still learning that their sensitivity was never the problem. The ones done performing strength for a crowd that never even noticed they were bleeding.

You’re not too much.
You never were.

Pull up a chair. This table was always yours.

About Sonali Sharma

Sonali Sharma is the founder of ContentBank, a prolific author and an empathetic storyteller whose work spans poetry, prose, scriptwriting, and narrative content. She has published three solo books and co-authored over fifty titles, two of them being Vajra world record holding projects. With her voice featured in leading portals such as The Daily Guardian, Pioneer News and Free Press Journal, at ContentBank, with creative strategies and brand management, she blends creative expression with advocacy for personal growth, resilience, and the transformative power of words. Some of her laurels include – Femmtetimes 30 under 30, Young achievers award by Indian Achiever’s Forum, MTTV Media Awards, HerStory Times Influential Award. Beyond writing, she mentors founders in building digital capital and continues to inspire through her talks and storytelling.