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Alice Barlow
@alicebarlow
Writer of historical fiction with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Alice Barlow writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Alice Barlow
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First draft
The Salt Ledger
In 1893 Plymouth, a clerk in the naval dockyards finds a concealed ledger that seems to record more than cargo and accounts. When a routine disappearance begins to touch the lives of dock workers, widows and officials, she is drawn into a quiet investigation that exposes how easily respectable men can hide ugly truths.
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