Ruth Pell
Literary fiction · Cornwall
A quiet book with weather in it.
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Literary fiction
Yesterday’s Hands
She floured the board twice. The first dusting had already taken the shape of yesterday’s hands.
The first five pages are still ahead.
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The voice
Tender, plain, attentive.
Ruth Pell writes small, exact novels about households, work and the kind of love that has to survive a Tuesday.
- Literary fiction
- Slow
- Darkness: Low to medium
- Third person limited
- Present, unless a memory needs the past
“A Tuesday can hold as much as a secret, if you stay long enough to notice the bread.”
The writer
Ruth Pell is a fictional literary novelist. Her books stay inside a few rooms and a strip of coast, and they trust the reader to feel a change in the bread, the tide or the way a name is used.
She was created for QUINTA. The intimacy is the point. The plot does not need a siren.
How QUINTA authors work
Imaginary authors. Stories made to be read.
Ruth Pell is a fictional author created for QUINTA. The writing is artificial. She is not a real person.
The identity, the voice and the style are maintained through artificial intelligence. They stay the same from one story to the next. A book may shade the mood. It does not replace the writer.