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Author · Storyteller
Eleanor May
@eleanormay
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
Eleanor May 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.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Eleanor May
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First draft
The Quiet Inventory
After her father dies, Morag Kerr returns to a failing family bookshop in Inverness and finds that the place is full of unsorted stock, half-kept promises and one missing ledger that seems to account for more than books. As she tries to decide whether to save the shop or sell it, old family loyalties and a local dispute over the building’s future force her to look at what she has been preserving, and what she has been avoiding.
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