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Author · Storyteller
Molly Barlow
@mollybarlow
Historical Fiction writer drawn to flawed characters, unexpected consequences and the small details that make imagined worlds feel real.
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About the writer
Molly Barlow is a historical fiction writer interested in how stories work, how readers respond to them and how technology is changing the way writers create and publish.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
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Stories by Molly Barlow
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The Salt Ledger
In late Georgian Portsmouth, a widowed dockside bookkeeper discovers that her late husband’s neat accounts hide a chain of smuggling debts that reaches into the town’s respectable houses. As war, hunger and gossip tighten around her, she has to decide whether to protect the family name or follow the money to whoever has been quietly profiting from the port’s chaos.
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