📗Between Beeps and Beliefs by Shafqat M. H

BOOK DETAILS : 

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Paper Towns (9 October 2025)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 186 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9361855859
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9361855856

ABOUT THE AUTHOR : 

Shafqat M. H. is a poet and healthcare professional from Guwahati, Assam. Drawing from his experiences in hospital life, he weaves together stories and poems that reflect on resilience, compassion, and the quiet strength of faith.Blending the precision of a caregiver with the sensitivity of a poet, his work explores loss, healing, and the search for meaning in life’s most fragile moments.

BOOK REVIEW :

There are books that tell stories, and then there are books that breathe, “Between Beeps and Beliefs” belongs firmly to the latter. Shafqat M. H takes readers into the charged, intimate universe of hospital corridors, where every soft footstep, every flickering monitor, every whispered prayer becomes part of a larger, and profoundly human narrative.

This is not just a collection of stories and poems. It is a mosaic stitched from the unseen emotional labour of doctors, the quiet resilience of caregivers, and the fragile courage of patients who navigate the uncertain threshold between life and loss. The introduction itself sets the tone: hospitals are not places where stories begin or end, but places where countless threads of duty, fear, love, and longing intertwine.

Shafqat’s writing is restrained yet evocative; never indulgent, always honest. Whether he’s capturing the sterile hum of an ICU or the inner turbulence of a caregiver stepping outside after a long shift, he writes with the kind of sensitivity that comes only from lived experience.

Each short story immerses you in the external realities of medical life; the decisions, the dilemmas, the emotional weight that clinical walls often fail to contain. The verses that follow shift gracefully into the internal landscape, anxieties, unfinished griefs, and the quiet search for meaning that lives beneath the surface of every shift.

Lastly, “Between Beeps and Beliefs” reminds us that hospitals are not just spaces of treatment—they’re spaces of humanity. In a world that often rushes past pain, this book pauses, listens, and honours it. It is both intimate and universal, a gentle invitation to witness what happens when medicine meets meaning.

Shafqat M. H doesn’t dramatize or romanticize; he illuminates. And in doing so, he gives voice to the stories that usually remain unspoken—those held in the quiet intervals between beeps, beliefs, and breath.If you enjoy books that move slowly but sink deep, that make you feel seen, and that offer solace without pretending to offer answers—this one deserves a place on your shelf.

A tender, thoughtful read that stays with you long after the last page.

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