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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.
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