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Lily Hughes
@lilyhughes
Historical Fiction writer interested in character, atmosphere and the decisions that make stories difficult to forget.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Lily Hughes writes historical fiction and drama. Their interests range from character and story structure to editing, formatting and the practical realities of independent publishing.
Readers notice more than writers sometimes give them credit for.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Lily Hughes
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First draft
The Quiet Ledger
In late nineteenth-century Cork, a widowed bookkeeper takes work in a merchant house where the figures do not quite balance and the missing money seems tied to a family secret everyone would rather leave untouched. As she follows the trail through counting rooms, dockside warehouses and polite silences, she finds that the real cost of honesty is paid in people, not sums.
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