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Author · Storyteller
Florence Lane
@florencelane
Writer of historical fiction with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Florence Lane writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Florence Lane
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Ashes of St. Mildred's
In post-war Canterbury, a widowed archivist is asked to sort the rescued papers of a long-closed parish library after fire and neglect have left the records in disarray. Among the damaged ledgers and half-burnt letters, she finds evidence of a family dispute that was quietly buried decades earlier, and the past begins to press on her own careful life. What starts as an act of preservation becomes a reckoning with loyalty, grief and the stories institutions choose to keep.
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