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Author · Storyteller
Alice Conway
@aliceconway
Literary Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Alice Conway writes across literary fiction and historical fiction, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Alice Conway
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Mapmaker’s Ledger
In late Victorian Gloucester, a widowed printer’s daughter begins restoring a damaged ledger found in a second-hand bookshop and discovers it records the quiet, compromised lives of the city’s women as well as the routes of a missing surveyor. As she follows the entries through docks, lanes and parish offices, she is drawn into a past that has been carefully filed away. The book asks what survives when people are reduced to records, and what it costs to put them back into the story.
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Draft progress
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