Aegean Publishing
THE CALL I DIDN’T ANSWER
A novel about love, loss, and the things we leave unsaid.
Chris Yiangou
Now available in paperback on Amazon and Lulu, and as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.
The story
When the woman he once loved calls in the middle of the night, Adam lets the phone ring. He tells himself he’ll call her back in the morning.
By then, it will be too late.
Elena is gone, and Adam is left with a question he cannot put down: why did she call him, after all those years?
Weeks after the funeral, her husband hands him a small box of things she kept. Sitting across from the man she married, Adam begins to see that Elena remembered their parting very differently, and that the story he has told himself for years may not be the true one.
What he learns will force him to face the choices they made, the lives they built apart, and what those choices cost the people they went on to love.
Sometimes the moments that shape a life are not the ones we choose, but the ones we delay.
A novel about love, loss, and the things we leave unsaid.
For readers
A story about memory, silence and second versions of the truth
An emotionally layered novel about past love, difficult choices, memory, and the consequences of conversations that never happened.
- Character-driven contemporary literary fiction
- Stories about love, loss and missed opportunities
- Memory and the different ways people remember the same past
- Emotionally complex relationships and questions of loyalty
- Quiet but consequential decisions that change people's lives
Book clubs
Questions to continue the conversation
Spoiler-light discussion prompts about memory, relationships, regret and the meaning of silence.
- 1
Is choosing not to answer a call always a meaningful decision?
- 2
How can two people remember the same relationship differently?
- 3
When does silence become an answer, even if no answer was intended?
- 4
Can the objects we keep preserve feelings that words never expressed?
- 5
How do loyalty and responsibility complicate our understanding of past love?
- 6
Can understanding the past change the meaning of our present choices?
- 7
What does the title The Call I Didn’t Answer mean to you?
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About the edition
- Title
- The Call I Didn’t Answer
- Author
- Chris Yiangou
- Publisher
- Aegean Publishing
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Contemporary Literary Fiction
- Format
- Paperback, 6 × 9 in, 176 pages
- Digital format
- Kindle eBook
- Edition
- First paperback edition
- Availability
- Now available in paperback on Amazon and Lulu, and as a Kindle eBook on Amazon.
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About the Author
Chris Yiangou
Chris Yiangou is an author whose writing explores the emotional complexities of human relationships, love, loss, memory, and the choices that shape our lives.
His stories find meaning in the moments that often go unnoticed: a conversation left unfinished, a connection that survives distance, a decision postponed, or a memory that refuses to fade.
His novels When the Noise Fades and The Call I Didn’t Answer explore identity, emotional connection, personal transformation, and the lasting influence of the past.
Through intimate storytelling, psychologically nuanced characters, and emotionally authentic narratives, Chris seeks to create books that invite readers not only to follow a story, but to recognise something of themselves within it.
His work is published under Aegean Publishing, the literary imprint of Aegean Astraea.