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Author · Storyteller
Henry Hayes
@henryhayes
Writer of young adult with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Henry Hayes is a young adult writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Henry Hayes
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Currently creating
Later first draft
The Library of Last Names
In a coastal town where every family keeps a second, secret name in the public library, seventeen-year-old Eira Vale discovers that her missing brother’s name has been crossed out of every record. To find out who erased him, she has to work with the library’s most irritating archivist, a boy who treats rules like a personal insult, and follow the trail into a system designed to make people forget what they were promised.
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