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Author · Storyteller
Grace Burke
@graceburke
Historical Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Grace Burke writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A story only works when somebody has something to lose.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Grace Burke
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Winter at Kingstown
In 1913, a widowed schoolmistress in Kingstown takes a temporary post cataloguing the private papers of a declining merchant family while the harbour town waits for labour unrest to break into open conflict. What begins as orderly work becomes a quiet battle over memory, loyalty and the stories people keep from one another. The winter closes in, and so does the question of who gets to decide what is preserved and what is lost.
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