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Author · Storyteller
Lewis Hayes
@lewishayes
Literary Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
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About the writer
Lewis Hayes writes literary fiction and contemporary. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
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Stories by Lewis Hayes
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Later first draft
The Shape of the Quiet
After her father’s death, Mara Vale returns to the Lancashire coastal town she left behind to sort through his flat and the unfinished notes for a local history book he never meant anyone to read. What starts as a practical clearing-out becomes a slow reckoning with family omissions, a half-buried community dispute, and the version of herself she built by leaving. The novel follows the uneasy work of deciding what to keep, what to name, and what can never be made tidy.
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