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No Vacancies and Other Stories

No Vacancies and Other Essays is a narrative of a childhood house riddled with addiction, secrets, abuse, and tragedy. People say a love for the bottle runs in families, altering the course of people’s lives like a river carving out a valley. In our family, a dark undercurrent ran beneath the floorboards.

This collection is about growing up in England as the youngest daughter of a famous historical cartographer. The stories take you on darkly funny journeys across the paper landscapes of my father’s favorite map – Ordnance Survey, Six-inch Sheet Devonshire CIX, SE, Newton Abbot. Empty spaces are populated and finally tell what lies hidden in the map. 

Map of Newton Abbot, 1887. Ordnance Survey County Series

Map of Newton Abbot, 1887. Ordnance Survey County Series

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