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Author · Storyteller
Joseph Doyle
@josephdoyle
Historical Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Joseph Doyle writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A finished page should still feel alive.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Joseph Doyle
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Later first draft
The Salt Road to Cobh
Set in 1847 during the worst year of the famine, the novel follows a Limerick cooper’s daughter who is sent to Cobh with a cart of salted provisions that may never reach the people who need them. Along the road, she is drawn into a web of landlords, smugglers and desperate families, where every kindness carries a price. The journey becomes less about delivery than about deciding what survival is worth when the law and conscience no longer agree.
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