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What the Silence Said
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9781069711519
Publisher: Dustin Kennedy
Published: Sep 1 2025
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.93
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Ernest Hartwell is alone-adrift in loneliness, weighed down by silence, and uncertain how to keep moving forward. Then he meets Montaigne: a man whose presence feels older than stone, whose words carry the weight of centuries, and whose friendship begins to draw Ernest out of the shadows.
Through conversations filled with laughter, arguments, and quiet honesty, Ernest discovers that even the heaviest burdens-loneliness, grief, the ache of memory-can be lightened by connection. And as Montaigne reflects truths earned across lifetimes, Ernest is reminded that to love, to share, and to risk being seen is what makes life worth living.
A novel that moves between the intimate and the timeless, What the Silence Said is a meditation on loneliness, resilience, and the extraordinary power of human connection.
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