A quiet, intimate literary novel about love, grief, and resilience, following an aging Belfast couple whose marriage and inner lives are reshaped by loss and the lingering tensions of Northern Ireland. It’s reflective, compassionate, and character-driven.

In the uneasy stillness of Belfast in the late 1970s, widower Danny McIlhenny drifts through his days, numbed by the death of his wife and the steady hum of conflict beyond his doorstep. As he struggles to navigate grief, guilt, and the routines that once gave life its shape, small moments of connection begin to tug him back toward the world—unexpected friendships, fragile hopes, and a growing understanding of what it means to go on living when the heart is tired.

Spare, compassionate, and quietly powerful, The Human Season captures the resilience of the human spirit in a place where sorrow is ordinary but grace still flickers in the cracks.

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