Title: What The Quiet Knew
Description: What The Quiet Knew” follows Élira, a girl who learns to survive in the spaces where words fail her. 

Raised in the shadow of a mother’s illness and emotional unpredictability, and shaped by the quiet strength of her father and grandmother, Élira grows up carrying more than any child should. 

Her silence becomes her shield, her burden, and eventually the place she must escape to reclaim her own voice. 

 

As she moves through school, friendships, betrayal, and the slow erosion of her sense of safety, Élira begins to confront the truth of what she has lived through. 

This is a story about girlhood marked by trauma, the loneliness of being misunderstood, and the fragile, persistent hope of becoming more than your past. 

 

A deeply intimate work of literary autobiographical fiction, “What The Quiet Knew” explores survival, identity, and the quiet resilience that grows in the aftermath of pain.
Subjects: trauma, girlhood, resilience, emotional abuse, silence, survival, mother-daughter relationships, mental illness, anxiety, coming of age, autobiography fiction, healing
Places: United Kingdom
Time periods: early 2000s to 2020s