In the Quiet

What if you could watch the ways your family and friends cope after you die? What would you discover? Remember? And what would you risk?

Cate, the narrator of Eliza Henry Jones’s In the Quiet, lingers as her husband and children cope with her fall from a beloved horse on the family’s ranch in Australia. Her thirteen-year-old daughter, Jessa, finds her, dead on the path. Her family is both drawn together and pulled apart as they deal with the loss of Cate and the financial problems of the farm.

From the other side, Cate shares both her observations and memories as she watches her family and friends. It’s a unique look at what she had, what she lost, and how life moves forward, and we never lose track of the point of view as she reveals more and more details to us.

Eliza Henry Jones is a talented young author, still in her twenties. She started this novel on the last day of a writer’s residency, and six years later she had an original, complex look at how death can alter both family and friends. In an article in the Meanjin Quarterly, the author says, “As In the Quiet grew into a novel, I wanted to explore grief as I have seen it. I wanted to explore connection, joy and the reality of grief. That it comes in waves. That there are peaks and troughs. That grief and the rituals, ceremonials and stories that make it, paint themselves differently for every person, for every loss. Grief is wild and trembling and full.”

Eliza Henry-Jones was born in Melbourne in 1990. She was a Young Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre in 2012 and was a recipient of a Varuna residential fellowship in 2015. She is trained in grief, loss and trauma counseling. Immerse yourself in her luxurious prose and character-driven exploration of life, love and loss. In the Quiet is available online and in bookstores.
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