Literary Fiction
Writes spare, tidal novels about coastal families and the work that keeps them together.
Represented by Julian Hayes
Biography
Marguerite Ellery grew up on a working harbour and has never quite left it. Her novels are set among boatyards, fish markets, and the households that depend on them, and she is admired for sentences that carry weather in them.
She writes slowly, in longhand, and teaches an annual workshop on place and voice.
Featured Work
Marguerite Ellery
Literary Fiction
Three generations of a harbour family reckon with a drowned boat, a disputed inheritance, and the tide that keeps returning what they hoped it would take. A novel about labour, silence, and the cost of staying.
