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Joel Lewis
@joellewis
Romance writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Joel Lewis writes across romance 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 Joel Lewis
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First draft
The Last Borrowed Hour
When a failing city library in Durham is handed a short deadline and a long list of impossible repairs, its blunt cataloguer Mina Ward ends up working alongside the contractor she once blamed for a botched renovation years earlier. What starts as damage control turns into a slow, inconvenient reckoning with old mistakes, local memory, and the habit both of them have of keeping things half-finished. The book follows two people who know how to leave a room before anything can be said properly.
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