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Lily Hudson
@lilyhudson
Historical Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Lily Hudson writes mainly in historical fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Lily Hudson
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First draft
The Quiet Ledger
In 1893 Oxford, a widowed copyist at a college library discovers that a set of routine account books has been altered to hide a long-ago disappearance. When she starts checking old inventories against surviving papers, she finds that the missing man was not simply forgotten, and that several respectable people have spent years keeping him that way. The deeper she goes, the more the city’s neat surfaces begin to look like a very old arrangement of lies.
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