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Author · Storyteller
Laura Hart
@laurahart
Literary Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Laura Hart writes mainly in literary fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
A book is made from hundreds of decisions nobody sees.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Laura Hart
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Catalogue
After a municipal library in Sheffield is marked for closure, Mara Ellison takes a temporary job helping to clear its archives and discovers a set of unreturned books annotated by the same hand over several decades. As she traces the notes back through former borrowers, staff records and half-forgotten neighbourhood histories, she begins to suspect the library has been holding together more than books. The work forces her to reckon with a family silence she has spent years arranging around rather than facing.
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Draft progress
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