Talking at Night: A Novel

Talking At Night is Claire Daverley’s debut novel. A powerful love story between Will and Rosie, two teenagers that meet at college and, despite a terrible accident when they are young, they cannot let each other go, circling around each other as the years progress. The story takes place over two decades and is told from both their points of view as they deal with the incident that links them together but also tears them apart, unable to truly give up on each other.Daverley’s prose is poetic and captivating throughout as she produces a beautiful character-driven novel about being unable to let your first love go, filled with missed chances and deep undeniable longing. The novel doesn’t shy away from serious topics, showing that both characters struggle with the event that happened years ago.All in all, Daverley’s offering is a beautiful love story filled with characters that feel realistic as they deal with the realities of life.