You will recognise someone in this book. It will not be comfortable.

Perhaps it is the husband who has spent a lifetime showing love through logistics: paying the bills, fixing what breaks, making tea at midnight, and never once being asked what he feels. Perhaps it is the mother who phones her grown son every evening, not to listen but to confirm he is still on the path she drew for him. Perhaps it is the couple lying twelve inches apart at 3 a.m., both awake, both silent.

For close to four decades, psychotherapist Dr. G. B. Singh has sat in a therapy room in India and listened to what people cannot say to their families, their spouses or themselves: anger that was never permitted, grief that was given no language, love that controlled instead of seeing.

The Unspoken takes you into that room through sixteen lives. Each carries a wound that many people hold in private, each believing they are the only one.

This book is for you if:

● You grew up in a family where feelings were swallowed, not spoken

● You love your parents, partner or children and still feel unseen by them

● You carry grief, anger or resentment you have never put into words

● You are a therapist, counsellor or psychology student who wants to understand the inner world of Indian families

This is not a self-help book. There are no exercises and no step-by-step plans, only honest, compassionate storytelling about what happens when someone finally says what they were raised to swallow.

You may read a chapter and put the book down. You may think of your father, your mother, your marriage, yourself. And something unnamed that has sat in your chest for years may, for the first time, find words.