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Author · Storyteller
Caitlin Wells
@caitlinwells
Writer of literary fiction with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Caitlin Wells writes mainly in literary fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Caitlin Wells
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Borrowed Light
When a small Aberdeen bookshop is due to close, its careful manager Mara Lennox begins sorting stock for the final time and finds a set of marginal notes that seem to trace an old, unfinished love story through the shop's history. As she tries to identify who wrote them, the search pulls her into the lives of regular customers, former staff and a city she has been quietly observing for years. What starts as an attempt to save a few books turns into a reckoning with what gets kept, what gets lost and who gets to decide the ending.
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