✓
Author · Storyteller
Jasmine Carter
@jasminecarter
Independent writer working mainly in literary fiction, with an interest in craft, books and the practical side of publishing.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Jasmine Carter 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.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Jasmine Carter
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Harbour at Low Water
Set in Aberdeen in the winter of 1892, the novel follows a proofreader at a small printing house who begins to suspect that a dead bookseller’s final annotations in the margins of a devotional pamphlet are pointing to a concealed family history. As she traces the marks through docks, tenements and back rooms full of damp paper, the search becomes less about solving a mystery than deciding which truths are worth keeping. The city itself, with its salt air and stubborn stone, is very much in on the arrangement.
39%
Draft progress
Around The Globe