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The Scotsman - Unspeakable Review
This caring, inquisitive book has one final irony. It does not talk and I read it silently. - Stuart Kelly
Kirkus Review of Unspeakable
“A curious, intensive exploration of the eccentric world of silence and solitude.”
The Guardian - 'Shame seeded my silence'
One Sunday I came to sit with the dead. The room was almost untouched. Everything and nothing was the same. I was standing in my grandmother’s study. She had lived with us for 25 years, and died six months earlier. Her room had been cleaned and closed – the dark beetles of dried blood scrubbed from the fireplace where she fell and cracked her head. I had come to her room to sit with the silence.