Blind Date With a Book | 511
Three old women on a seaside holiday. A young woman with a tattoo and a past she won’t name. One city that holds them all together and apart.
This is a novel about what is said and what is silenced. About memory, trauma, denial, and the violence that lives just under the surface of beauty. Set against the backdrop of a coastal temple town, the story unfolds quietly, with exquisite restraint and devastating emotional depth.
Not a loud book but a brave one. And for those willing to sit with discomfort, it offers something rare: truth that arrives not in answers, but in what’s left unspoken.
📗 In The Mood For…
Solving a Mystery
There’s no detective, but something hidden drives this novel. A past that isn’t fully told. A truth that hovers at the edges.
✅ Tension built through omission, memory, and dread
✅ The reader is part of the slow unraveling
Understanding Myself
Though rooted in trauma, this novel quietly asks: How do we live with what we cannot name?
✅ Invites reflection on silence, survival, and emotional defense
✅ Subtle emotional excavation
Healing
This isn’t a warm or soothing book but there’s a kind of courage in its clarity.
✅ Holds pain without dramatizing it
✅ Makes space for strength born from survival
📘 Stories About…
Pain, Suffering & Recovery
The central character has lived through something horrific. This story is about what happens after.
✅ Focuses on aftermath and long-term emotional impact
✅ Offers no easy redemption, but shows quiet endurance
The Unknown or Unseen
Spirituality, memory, and violence blur into something surreal. There are things the characters don’t see and things they choose not to.
✅ Liminal spaces, symbolic landscapes
✅ Evokes a haunting presence without spelling it out
Freedom & Constraint
The story’s tension lies between what the characters want to express—and what the world allows them to.
✅ Explores internal repression and societal pressure
✅ Freedom is yearned for, but always partial