The Porcelain Listening Bowl (Large Print Edition)
Paperback
Series: Silent Witness, Book 2
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: MR Parrott
Published: Dec 23 2025
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
For half a century, Rosemere House has been the perfect vessel for the family's grief, its stone walls cold with the weight of The Hearthlight Oath. The house, now fluent in the language of avoidance, registers the passing decades as layers of Dustfall. But the silence is about to be shattered. Tomé Calder, a documentary filmmaker and outsider, marries into the family and refuses to play their quiet game. With his intrusive cameras and blunt questions, Tomé challenges the sanctity of the family's inherited trauma, seeking to expose the truth that the current Ellis Greyvine-the stoic keeper of secrets-has fiercely protected. As the middle generations struggle under the psychological pressure, the house begins to suffer, manifesting its pent-up memories in structural creaks and cold spots. The tension culminates in a devastating confrontation around the Porcelain Listening Bowl, the silent receptacle of secrets. When the bowl shatters, generations of whispered confessions are released, forcing the family to confront a truth they vowed never to speak.
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