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Author · Storyteller
Freya Lewis
@freyalewis
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
Freya Lewis writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Freya Lewis
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First draft
The Quiet Ledger
In post-war Leeds, a widow who has spent years keeping other people’s accounts is left with a ledger that should not exist, full of names, payments and small betrayals tied to a local mill family. As she follows the paper trail, she finds that the most ordinary records can expose the most damaging truths. The novel balances domestic detail, moral pressure and the slow cost of deciding what should be kept, and what should be burned.
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