Title: The silent treatment : a novel /
Authors: Greaves, Abbie
Year: 2020
Subjects: Spouses Fiction; Marital quality Fiction.; Selective mutism Fiction.; Silence Fiction.; Honesty Fiction.; Suicidal behavior Fiction; Honesty; Marriage; Selective mutism; Silence; Spouses; Suicidal behavior
Abstract: "By all appearances, Frank and Maggie share a happy, loving marriage. But for the past six months, they have not spoken. Not a sentence, not a single word. Maggie isn't sure what, exactly, provoked Frank's silence, though she has a few ideas... Then Frank finds Maggie collapsed in the kitchen, unconscious, an empty package of sleeping pills on the table. Rushed to the hospital, she is placed in a medically induced coma while the doctors assess the damage. If she regains consciousness, Maggie may never be the same. Though he is overwhelmed at the thought of losing his wife, will Frank be able to find his voice once again--and explain his withdrawal--or is it too late?"--