Exploring the quiet spaces between memory and belonging, one story at a time.
A Novel of Memory and Return
When Maren Calloway returns to the coastal village she fled twenty years ago, she discovers that the past isn't simply a place you leave behind. Through the crumbling rooms of her grandmother's house and the shifting light of the North Sea, she must confront the choices that shaped her family across three generations.
A luminous novel about the stories we inherit and the ones we choose to tell.
Order Now Read an Excerpt"We are, each of us, the stories we cannot bring ourselves to tell. And it is in the telling that we finally come home."
Eleanor Voss, The HomecomingThere's a particular quality to light remembered rather than observed. When I write about the Norfolk coast, I'm not describing what I see now, but what I carried away.
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Eleanor Voss is the author of four novels, including the critically acclaimed A Tide of Small Mercies and What the River Kept. Her work explores themes of displacement, memory, and the landscapes we carry inside us.
She lives in a converted chapel on the Suffolk coast with an unreasonable number of books and a dog named Austen. When not writing, she teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia.
"Voss writes with the precision of a poet and the patience of the sea. There is no one quite like her in contemporary fiction." The Guardian