The Keeper of Unwritten Numbers

By Abhishek Singh

In the Welsh village of Cwm Tŷ, every door carries a number carved into the wood - the year its resident will die. No one knows who carves them, or how. No one has ever seen one change.

Maggie Rhys Rhys has spent her whole life terrified of hers. She has none. Just four zeros above her door, and forty-two years of silence where a number should be.

When her estranged father dies and leaves her his postmistress position - and a locked box of unanswered questions - Maggie returns to the village she fled, only to find a stranger has moved into the abandoned house next door, a forge that's been cold for twenty-seven years is warm again, and her own blank door has started, impossibly, to pulse.

As the village's seven residents confront what their numbers have made of their lives - a farmer learning to dance instead of merely wait, a mother teaching her daughter to see what adults refuse to, a young man discovering his death has moved further away and doesn't know what to do with the years he's been given back - Maggie must decide what a life looks like when no one has told you how long you have to live it.

The Keeper of Unwritten Numbers is a novel about the difference between counting your days and living them - and about what we owe each other in the space between prediction and choice.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H7QC2RQL
• ISBN13: 9798185719756
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"