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Author · Storyteller
Laura Parker
@lauraparker
Writer interested in literary fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Laura Parker writes across literary fiction and contemporary, 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 Laura Parker
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Quiet Inventory
After her father dies, Mara Ellison is left with a flat full of labelled boxes, a half-finished memoir he never meant anyone to read, and a small independent bookshop that has been quietly relying on his unpaid bookkeeping for years. As she tries to sort the practical mess of his life, she starts to see how much of her own has been built around avoiding the same kinds of unfinished truths.
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Draft progress
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