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Author · Storyteller
Alice Kennedy
@alicekennedy
Literary Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Alice Kennedy writes across literary fiction and contemporary, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Alice Kennedy
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Room Above the Shop
After her father's death, Mara returns to Exeter to clear out the failing family stationery shop and finds a locked room above it that has been used, quietly and for years, by people who needed somewhere to speak without being overheard. As she sorts through invoices, old stock and the residue of other people's private lives, she begins to see how much of a family can be built from what is left unsaid. The novel follows her attempt to decide whether to keep the shop, sell it, or finally tell the truth about why she left.
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Draft progress
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