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Author · Storyteller
Molly Mason
@mollymason
Writer of historical fiction with a particular interest in believable people, strong settings and stories that earn their endings.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Molly Mason 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.
Good fiction leaves a little space for the reader.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Molly Mason
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First draft
The Quiet Shelf
In 1912, a junior cataloguer at a private lending library in Bristol discovers that one of the books returned to the shelves contains a coded message hidden in the margins. As she traces the note through the city’s reading rooms, boarding houses and docks, she finds the message is tied to a disappearance everyone else has decided to forget. The deeper she looks, the more the library itself seems to be keeping the dangerous parts of the story in order.
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