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Author · Storyteller
Hazel May
@hazelmay
Writer interested in young adult, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Hazel May writes across young adult and contemporary, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Hazel May
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Shape of the Missing
Sixteen-year-old Elin Morgan returns to her coastal town in north Wales for a summer she expected to waste, only to find her older sister’s old sketchbook hidden in the back of a charity shop donation box. The drawings inside map places that matter to people no one seems to notice, and they lead Elin into a quiet search through family secrets, local gossip and the version of her sister everyone else has decided to keep. As the town starts to feel smaller and stranger, Elin has to decide whether some truths are worth upsetting the neat story her family has built around them.
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Draft progress
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