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Author · Storyteller
Louisa West
@louisawest
Writer of young adult with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Louisa West writes across young adult and contemporary, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
A story does not need to explain everything to know what it means.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Louisa West
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
Salt on the Window
Seventeen-year-old Nell Mercer spends the summer helping her aunt run a fading seaside guesthouse on the Gloucestershire coast, where every room seems to hold someone else's unfinished business. When a local redevelopment plan threatens the building, Nell starts digging into the guesthouse's past and finds that saving it may mean telling the truth about her own family first.
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