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Hypatia Lane

Novels of slow rooms and slower mornings. Five books, written by candlelight in two cities, for the reader who wants to be slowed down on purpose.

Hypatia Lane
Words she keeps near the lamp
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
— Anaïs Nin

The Works

Five novels, twelve short stories, one year of correspondence — arranged the way she would arrange them on a shelf above the writing desk.
No. 2024
HL
The Velvet Hours
Hypatia Lane
A novella
A novella2024

The Velvet Hours

Three women, one summer house in the Var, and the long warm hours that refuse to end.

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