When the Noise Fades by Chris Yiangou | Motivated Savages

When the Noise Fades

by Chris Yiangou

A quiet literary novella about family, memory, midlife and change.

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ABOUT THE BOOK

At forty-seven, Claire Bennett thought she knew what her life was.

Then, almost at once, the roles that had defined her begin to disappear.

Her daughter leaves for university. Her marriage to Daniel is over. And when her mother moves out of the seaside house where Claire grew up, Claire is left with five weeks to empty a home filled with the remnants of another life.

She expects boxes, paperwork and difficult decisions about things nobody wants.

She does not expect the past to feel so present.

As familiar rooms empty, Claire finds forgotten objects, half-trusted memories and traces of choices she once imagined would lead somewhere else. An old friend returns after eleven years. Daniel is moving forward. Her daughter is building a life that no longer arrives automatically through Claire.

And slowly, an uncomfortable question begins to surface:

When the people who once needed you no longer need you in the same way, who are you allowed to become?

Set against the quiet beauty of an English seaside town, When the Noise Fades is a tender, reflective novel about motherhood, marriage, friendship, memory and the strange freedom of discovering that an ending does not have to be a failure.

For readers drawn to emotionally honest contemporary fiction about ordinary lives at extraordinary turning points.

Book Details:

• Genre: Literary & Historical Fiction
• Format: Paperback, eBook