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The Record of What Remained
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Ben Layfield
Published: Dec 24 2025
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.11 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
After the death of his wife, a new father begins keeping a meticulous record of his days-documenting routines, emotions, and decisions with clinical restraint. The notebook is meant to protect him from grief, from error, from harm.
At first, it brings order. Fatigue is managed. Guilt recedes. Life stabilizes.
But as the record grows more efficient, it also grows quieter. Omissions replace explanations. Absence becomes routine. When continuity finally fails, he follows the logic of his own system to its inevitable conclusion-one that forces him to confront a devastating truth about restraint, responsibility, and what it means to allow harm.
The Record of What Remained; A Study in Intent is a restrained psychological novel about how good intentions become permissions-and the cost of mistaking observation for care.
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