The Silence Diaries: A Novel
Literary Fiction
by Jennifer Kavanagh
Suzie and Orbs are in their thirties and have been together for a couple of years. Orbs reluctantly makes a living in the City and Suzie is a respected financial journalist, but each has another life hidden from the outside world… Their secret existence is threatened first when Suzie is offered a highly visible job, and then by an accident that turns their lives upside down. This is their struggle to survive as partners.
REVIEW
4 out of 5
This was an interesting premise – based around the secret lives we hide from others. I enjoyed following along with the characters as they navigated their public (and private) lives. Each narrative is based around voice…or lack of it. This isn’t a light-hearted story by any means, and tackles some important issues. Three people, three different lives, all tied together by their relationships with each other. An interesting take on the idea of silence and sound, and who we show to the world vs who we really are.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Kavanagh is a former literary agent, who spent nearly 30 years in publishing. She now sets up micro-credit programmes, mainly in Africa, and is a facilitator for the conflict resolution programme, Alternatives to Violence project. Jennifer lives in London, England. She is a Quaker, an associate tutor at the Quaker study centre, Woodbrooke, and she writes and speaks regularly on the Spirit-led life.
She is the author of twelve books of non-fiction and three novels, the third of which, “And this shall be my dancing day”, comes out in July 2023.