Prose you can hear
Quiet, exact sentences that stay with you long after the last page. Meant to be read slowly.
$ A new novel
The Weight of Quiet Things
A story about memory, distance, and the people we almost keep. Out now in hardcover, ebook, and audio.
About the book
What it's about
Elin returns to the coastal town she left at nineteen to sort through a house full of a mother she barely knew — and finds a stranger's letters tucked inside the walls.
Over one long, rain-soft autumn, she pieces together two lives that were never supposed to meet: her mother's, and the writer of the letters. What begins as an inheritance becomes an act of listening — to the dead, to the living, and finally to herself.
The Weight of Quiet Things is a novel about the small, unspoken debts we owe one another, and the strange grace of arriving somewhere too late and staying anyway. Replace this blurb with your own — it's here so you can see how the page reads.
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 328
- Published
- Spring 2026
- ISBN
- 978-0-00-000000-0
Why readers love it
A book to sit with
Three things people keep coming back to. Swap these for your own selling points.
A story that lingers
A mystery of letters, a coastal town, and a mother's hidden life — unfolding at its own patient pace.
Critically acclaimed
Named a Book of the Year by The Evening Review and praised by fellow novelists as a modern classic.
Praise
What people are saying
"A luminous, unhurried novel. Every chapter felt like a letter I wasn't supposed to read — and couldn't stop reading."
The Evening Review
Books of the Year
"Rarely does prose this precise also feel this warm. A quietly devastating book about the space between people."
Maren Ashby
Author of Northlight
"I finished it on the last train home and sat in the station for an hour. That's the highest praise I have."
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The author
Meet the author
Your Name is a novelist and essayist whose work explores memory, place, and the lives we don't quite lead.
Their debut collection was shortlisted for the First Book Award, and their essays have appeared in several literary journals. They live by the coast with a very old dog and far too many notebooks. Replace this bio with your own — this is placeholder text.
Where to buy
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Hardcover — $24
Signed first-edition copies available while supplies last.
Ebook — $12
Available for all major e-readers and reading apps.
Audiobook — $19
Unabridged, narrated by the author. Roughly 9 hours.
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