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Author · Storyteller
Isla Dawson
@isladawson
Literary Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Isla Dawson writes across literary fiction and historical fiction, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Isla Dawson
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Ledger
In 1893, a widowed ledger clerk in a Sheffield cutlery works discovers that a set of missing accounts may conceal more than theft. As she follows the numbers through workshops, boarding houses and a respectable family home, she begins to see how easily debt, silence and reputation can be used to keep people in their place.
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