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The Sound of My Voice
Author: Ron Butlin
£8.95
ScotlandLiterary Fiction
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The Sound of My Voice follows Morris Magellan, a man stuck in a corporate job and suburban life that feels like a nightmare as he drifts toward addiction, finding brief refuge in music and alcohol while his grip on reality slips. Written with humour and compassion, this psychological novel explores human fragility and self-rediscovery. Ideal for readers of literary fiction with deep character focus.
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Booksellers Notes
We found The Sound of My Voice quietly devastating, its fractured prose capturing suburban drift, addiction, and the slow erosion of self beneath routine and expectation.
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Morris Magellan wakes to a life that looks complete from the outside. A corporate job, a suburban home, a wife and two children. From the inside, it feels like entrapment. Disoriented and quietly unraveling, Morris stands on the edge of a collapse he does not yet recognise.
Addiction is tightening its grip, though he remains in denial. Music and alcohol become his refuge, a way to escape the demands of family life and the emptiness of his days. Symphonies and concertos soundtrack his existence, each drink and each movement carrying him forward, moment by moment, as he tries to hold on to something essential before it slips away.
Harrowing yet laced with dark humour and deep compassion, this is a powerful novel about dependency, self deception and the struggle to reclaim humanity. It explores the tension between cruelty and cowardice, and the fragile hope that listening closely, to music and to oneself, might offer a way back.
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