BIOGRAPHY & LITERARY ARCHIVE
About Lydia Battenwell
Lydia Battenwell is a fictional placeholder novelist and essayist whose work explores tidal landscapes, family archives, and the quiet persistence of coastal communities.
Before turning full-time to fiction, she spent nine winters cataloguing parish land surveys and maritime weather ledgers along chalk estuaries — archival habits that shape The Chalkmere Ledger, Letters from Kettlemere, and Hours of the Chalk Coast.
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Lydia Battenwell is the author of The Chalkmere Ledger, Letters from Kettlemere, Orchards of Battenwick, and the essay collection Hours of the Chalk Coast. Her fiction and field essays explore memory, coastal ecology, and inherited notebooks. She writes from a quiet tidal county and welcomes independent book-club conversations.
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Book-Club, Festival & Rights Kit
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- 8 spoiler-marked discussion questions & coastal map handout
- Signed archival cotton bookplates mailed to your host (for groups of 6+)
- 20-minute virtual Q&A availability for independent bookshop & library clubs
READINGS, BOOK CLUBS & EDITIONS
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