At a small coastal café, Ivy’s life passes in quiet, careful routines—until the morning a reserved poet named Henrik begins sitting at table eleven. What grows between them is not an affair, nor even a friendship, but something far a recognition, a longing, a collision of silences.
When Henrik vanishes without warning, Ivy’s world narrows to the empty space he leaves behind. An envelope arrives. Five poems. A story she never expected and one she can’t stop writing into the cracks of her own life.
Table Eleven is a tender, devastating novella about imagination, loneliness, the danger of being seen, and the quiet courage of rewriting yourself after heartbreak.