Hester Marchant's fiction is concerned with archives and the people held inside them, those recorded wrongly, recorded once, or never recorded at all. The Displacement Index, her first novel, imagines an institution built to recover what the documents could not hold, and follows it across forty years as it becomes respectable, then powerful, then unsure of itself. She is interested in evidence, in what a record is for, and in the questions an archive cannot answer.
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