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Author · Storyteller
Faye Ward
@fayeward
Writer interested in literary fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Faye Ward 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.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Faye Ward
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Catalogue
In post-war Leeds, a quiet clerk in a private lending library discovers that a set of missing catalogue cards points to more than misfiled books. As she follows the gaps through the city’s bookshops, back rooms and damp terraces, she is drawn into a story about grief, reinvention and the small acts that decide what survives. The novel moves between the physical labour of keeping a library alive and the private damage its staff have learned to hide.
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Draft progress
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