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About The Book 

Autumns That Never Happened is a quiet, introspective novel about endurance—about what it means to keep standing when life repeatedly misaligns itself.
Abhinav begins as an unremarkable civil engineering student, drifting through college with modest ambition and a private love for sketching. His early adult life unfolds through projects, transfers, and offices that promise growth but quietly drain meaning. Mentors appear and vanish, trust is extended and withdrawn, and effort does not always lead where it claims it will. His career becomes a corridor of waiting—functional, disciplined, and emotionally hollow.
Love arrives unexpectedly in the form of Anvi, a calm presence who reshapes time itself. With her, life briefly aligns: mornings gain rhythm, the future feels imaginable, and happiness settles into ordinary rituals. Their engagement seems inevitable, not dramatic—until reality intrudes. Questions of salary, stability, and timelines begin to outweigh affection. Without blame or cruelty, the relationship dissolves, leaving behind silence rather than closure.
As work grows hostile and personal faith erodes, Abhinav’s inner world collapses faster than his outer one. An accident interrupts everything—career, momentum, even despair—forcing him into stillness. Recovery is slow and lonely, marked by uncertainty rather than revelation. Yet in small, ordinary moments—family, friendship, sunlight on the floor—he finds a faint willingness to continue.
This is not a story of triumph or transformation. Abhinav does not conquer his darkness; he learns to coexist with it. Autumns That Never Happened is a meditation on quiet resilience, on lives lived without spectacle, and on survival itself as a fragile but meaningful act.

About The Author

Abhishek is from Lahaul Spiti, Himachal Pradesh, and a Highway Engineer who writes about endurance rather than triumph. His stories move through ordinary days, unfinished conversations, and the slow passage of time, where resilience takes shape quietly and survival carries its own muted dignity. He is drawn to moments that appear insignificant, yet linger long after, revealing the hidden weight of everyday life.