Nora Vallance writes historical fiction across the Atlantic, standalone books tied by one question: who gets written down. The Bells of Lisbon opens on the morning of the 1755 earthquake, when Europe stopped being able to say that suffering was a message. The Name on the Manifest crosses two oceans on a dead girl's name. Neither is a sequel to the other, and either can be read first.
Books
- SOON1600 x 2560 pxratio 1 / 1.6Cover slot for The Bells of Lisbon
The Bells of Lisbon
On All Saints morning in 1755 a bookbinder loses the city, the shop, and the use of her father's hands in nine minutes, and spends six years copying the state's reports on an earthquake nobody can explain.
Forthcoming
- SOON1600 x 2560 pxratio 1 / 1.6Cover slot for The Name on the Manifest
The Name on the Manifest
An instrument conservator in Honolulu inherits an 1884 Madeiran braguinha with a name scratched out inside, and finds that the great grandmother her family reveres crossed two oceans under a dead girl's name.
Forthcoming