Journal
Short essays about invisible work, duty, and the small arrangements by which a woman disappears from her own life — the territory the Vale & Daughter novels are written out of.
There is a mug on the windowsill above the sink. It was made two hours ago and there is a skin on the top of it now. None of the signs that follow are dramatic — that is rather the point.
Read the essayThe cover of ELIZABETH, the portrait of Elizabeth Vale and the view of Selwyn Bay were made with an AI image tool. Selwyn Bay is an invented town and Elizabeth Vale an invented woman: neither picture is a photograph of anywhere or anyone.
The portrait of the author is a photograph of Gloria Sorel, edited with the same tool.