The Silence We Choose

The Silence We Choose

For years, Ismera, her husband Berrit and their friends have made an ordinary pleasure of Friday cards. Then Ismera sees Berrit kissing Nivelle, the friend who knows where her cups belong and how to make her laugh. She goes home and says nothing.

Nivelle is waiting for the private promises of an affair to become a life she can actually inhabit. She still wants Ismera’s friendship. Ismera wants time to decide what she will lose, but keeping quiet is already changing how she treats the people she loves.

Told through the two women’s close perspectives, The Silence We Choose follows desire, cruelty and unexpected pleasure beyond the first confrontation. A daughter has plans of her own. Old friends will not become a jury. A good day cannot undo a betrayal, and an apology cannot decide whether it will be accepted.

An adult contemporary novel about the familiar lives people want to keep, and the incompatible futures they must eventually choose.

Your reading experience

• Two distinct close perspectives on a marriage and a friendship
• An affair revealed to the reader early, rather than a late mystery twist
• A complete story with enacted separation and substantial aftermath

115 pages. PDF ebook for personal reading. No physical product is shipped.