The Strand

Name: The Strand
Brand: Madi Preda
Price: 32.75 AUD

A Novel of Institutional Silence

By: Madi Preda

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Paperback | 10 April 2026

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280 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.78

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On a remote stretch of coastline where the sea never stops speaking, silence has long been enforced.

The Strand is a haunting and atmospheric literary novel that explores the legacy of institutional secrecy, buried memory, and the quiet devastation of lives erased from history.

When a weathered collection of letters is discovered along a desolate shore, a long-forgotten story begins to surface. The fragile pages carry the voices of those confined within a coastal institution-voices that were never meant to be heard. As their words emerge from the past, they reveal a world shaped by control, silence, and the deliberate erasure of truth.

What begins as a discovery becomes an unravelling.

As past and present collide, the shoreline itself becomes a threshold between what was hidden and what can no longer remain buried. The sea returns what was taken-but at a cost.

Dark, evocative, and deeply moving, The Strand is perfect for readers of literary fiction drawn to themes of historical injustice, psychological depth, and the enduring power of memory.

For readers of:

Irish literary fiction
Historical and institutional narratives
Emotionally driven, atmospheric storytelling

This is a novel about what remains when silence breaks-and what it demands in return.

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