Little Acts of Violence

Little Acts of Violence is the story of a thirty-year relationship that doesn’t explode — it erodes.

Michael and Stephen are the couple everyone admires: stable, successful, enduring. But behind the shared home and familiar routines, their marriage has begun to fracture in quiet, almost invisible ways. A forgotten gift. A careless joke. A criticism disguised as honesty. Each moment is small, reasonable, easily denied — and devastating in its accumulation.

Told with emotional precision and aching tenderness, the novel charts how love can be worn down not by grand betrayals, but by everyday cruelties we convince ourselves don’t matter. It is a story about ageing, intimacy, and the dangerous power of what goes unsaid — asking whether a long life together is enough to save two people who have slowly learned how to hurt each other best.