Hopedrawer

The next set of words to arrive in the Dictionary all belong to one place: my new book, The Comeback Plan.

The book makes a simple argument. Survival is not the finish line. It is the starting line. What follows is the slow rebuilding of body, mind and sense of self after the events that split a life into a before and an after: serious illness, surgery, burnout, grief, the long tail of a virus. Medicine is good at the rescue and much less good at the return, and that territory has never had proper names.

So we will name it. Here is the first.

Hopedrawer (noun)
The kitchen drawer where every half-finished bottle of supplements from a bad month quietly goes to retire.

Nobody plans a hopedrawer. It fills the way these things do, one sensible-seeming purchase at a time, and it says nothing about you except that you were trying.

The Comeback Plan is published in March 2027. You can find it here:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Comeback-Plan-Dr-Matt-Morgan/dp/1804194425

More words soon.

Matt