Title: Whispers through a megaphone
Description: 35-year-old Miriam hasn't left her house in three years, and cannot raise her voice above a whisper. But today she has had enough, and is finally ready to rejoin the outside world. Maybe it's time to stop living in the shadow of her abusive dead mother? Meanwhile, Ralph has made the mistake of opening a closet door, only to discover with a shock that his wife Sadie doesn't love him, and never has. And so he decides to run away. Miriam and Ralph's chance meeting in a wood during stormy weather marks the beginning of an amusing, restorative friendship.
Subjects: Death, Life change events, Mothers, Fiction, Psychotherapists, Interpersonal relations, Man-woman relationships, Bashfulness, Friendship, Agoraphobia, Hermits, Fiction, general, Roman, Englisch