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Author · Storyteller
Rachel Parker
@rachelparker
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
Rachel Parker writes across historical fiction and mystery, with a particular interest in character, atmosphere, revision and the details that turn a manuscript into a finished book.
The interesting part usually begins where the easy answer stops.
Books and story worlds
Stories by Rachel Parker
On the writing desk
Currently creating
First draft
The Salt House Ledger
In 1890s Galway, a widowed copyist takes work cataloguing the papers of a faded merchant family and finds a ledger that should not exist. Its pages point to a long-buried disappearance, a disputed inheritance, and a house that has been quietly lying for decades.
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Draft progress
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