HOLLOW CREEKLIGHT
Hollow Creek Light
A novel
Hollow Creek is a model community on a riverbank, raised on hope — and over ground no one cares to dig. When a junior archivist opens the town’s closed founding files, the authorised history starts to split.
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The Plot
Hollow Creek is a model community on a riverbank, raised on hope — and over ground no one cares to dig. When a junior archivist opens the town’s closed founding files, the authorised history starts to split.
Road by road, title by title, Hollow Creek has to choose which past it can live with. A gently suspenseful story of civic legend, hidden fact, and the price of a handsome narrative.
In This Edition
- Facsimiles of the founding documents argued over in the story.
- A reflection by the writer on model towns and company settlements.
- A chronology of Hollow Creek from first stones to its 150th year.
An Excerpt
The repository carried a smell of rust and wet wool, and the carton marked 1911–1919 wore the sort of tape that suggests someone had wished it shut for good. Wren had patience to spare. She fed the microfilm through with the caution of one handling something volatile — which, as matters turned out, she was.
| Format | Hardcover, 352 pages |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Alder & Wren Books |
| Published | 2021 |
| ISBN | 978-1-64729-019-2 |
Critical Voices
“Gently riveting — a municipal mystery with a living pulse.”— The New Yorker
“Linden’s boldest piece of construction yet.”— The Atlantic
