The Reader and the Writer – a novel

Black and white book cover for The Reader and the Writer by John Gill, featuring a design divided by a torn paper effect.

The Reader and the Writer follows Judith, who visits her mother in a psychiatric ward out of duty, guilt and a love long since curdled into endurance – until unsigned letters begin arriving, the unravelling confession of a man she tells herself she doesn’t know. It’s a quiet, unflinching novel about inheritance, self-deception and the stories we tell ourselves to survive the ones we’re given.