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The Devil Has Spoken
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HorrorGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $14.99
ISBN13: 9781911761730
Publisher: Noble Legacy Publishing
Published: Oct 5 2026
Pages: 146
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.34 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
London, March 2020. The city is holding its breath.
As the first lockdown descends on Britain, seven lives continue in the only way lives can: quietly, urgently, and full of things left unsaid.
Lucrezia, fifty and newly free of the factory that has defined her for twelve years, sits at her window and listens to the traffic and thinks about Septimus. Eleanor, young and fragile and furiously alive, walks the wet streets of Bloomsbury with a poem half-formed in her head and nowhere safe to go. Elizabeth, sharp and self-contained, waits outside a chemist on Goodge Street and does not yet know how much the next few weeks will ask of her. Graham, quietly hopeful, misses his chance on a traffic island and wonders whether there will be another one. Diana stocks her shelves and misses her church. Sophie fills a ring binder with poems. Zeeshan locks up Chilli Masters and walks home through empty streets.
Above all of them, watching all of them, is a voice that will not be silenced.
The Devil Has Spoken is a novel about a city learning to stop, and about what people find in the silence. It is about depression and recovery, about friendship and its limits, about the small acts of courage that do not look like courage at all. It is about the letters we write when we cannot speak, the books we find at exactly the right moment, and the life that is waiting, just out of reach, for those who are brave enough to reach for it.
Sharp, tender, and shot through with dark wit, The Devil Has Spoken marks the arrival of a bold and distinctive new voice in British literary fiction.
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