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Author · Storyteller
Molly West
@mollywest
Writer interested in literary fiction, storytelling and all the strange practical decisions involved in turning drafts into books.
Behind the stories
About the writer
Molly West writes mainly in literary fiction and enjoys discussing both the creative and practical sides of making books, from early drafts to finished editions.
The best ideas rarely arrive in their final form.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Molly West
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Last Catalogue
In post-war Durham, a widowed archivist is tasked with sorting the remnants of a private library before the house is sold. Among the ledgers, marginalia and missing volumes, she begins to suspect that the collection has been quietly altered to hide a family history no one now wants named.
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Draft progress
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