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Henry Foster
@henryfoster
Literary Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
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About the writer
Henry Foster writes mainly in literary fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Henry Foster
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Early draft
The Quiet Mile
After a small riverside town is cut off by a winter closure of its only bridge, a proofreader named Iris Vale begins to notice inconsistencies in the lives of the people around her, as if everyone has agreed to keep one version of events out of sight. When her estranged brother returns with a box of old paperbacks and a story that does not quite hold together, Iris is drawn into the private histories the town has half-buried. The novel follows what happens when memory, design, and omission start to look uncomfortably similar.
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