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The Bell

by John Allan Ambury
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781067438609
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Tide and Thread Press Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Tide and Thread Press Canada
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 292
  • Original Price: GBP 18.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 395 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Death, Grief, Bereavement

In a coastal village where memory is managed as carefully as stone walls and weathered paths, an old church bell hangs in its tower - intact, visible, and never rung.

When Mara returns after her mother's death, she expects mourning and distance. Instead, she encounters a community structured around an absence: a silence that has hardened into custom, a bell whose stillness has become unquestioned authority. No one speaks of why it was never rung. No one needs to. The village has learned how to live without asking.

As Mara sorts through her mother's belongings, she begins to understand the cost of that quiet. Her mother was not simply a caretaker of tradition, but its final restraint - a woman who chose mercy once, and left others to live with the consequences. What the bell withheld spared the village in the moment, but required years of unexamined obedience in return.

Mara does not arrive to expose a secret or restore a ritual. She does something more dangerous: she listens. And in listening, she unsettles the careful balance that has kept the village orderly and unresolved. Truth surfaces slowly, not as confession or revelation, but as pressure - in what people stop avoiding, in what children echo without knowing why, in what can no longer be left unnamed.

The Bell is a quiet novel about restraint, inheritance, and the moment when silence stops being protection and becomes a choice. It asks what happens when a community is no longer told what to believe - and must decide, together, how to live with what it already knows.

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