# @deadinkbooks on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-07-11T11:06:24.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Dead Ink Books (@deadinkbooks) — https://gondola.cc/deadinkbooks

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Lorna Elcock on writing THE WINDHOVER:
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"I absolutely hauled this novel out of myself. The ordeal was not insignificant. At the end I looked -- with something like horror -- at what I'd done: youth hostels, birds of prey, Cumbernauld, fine art, a studio in Covent Garden. How did it happen? - I had no idea The Windhover was the book I was trying to write. But I think now that it was there, ready and waiting, all along,"

Read all about THE WINDHOVER 🪶 (publishing 23 July 2026) at the link in bio!

Cover design 🎨 sarahcschulte

#newbook #literaryfiction #scottishfiction #womensprize

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