Maren Holloway
THE LIBRARY
Three small novels, written slowly.
Each one belongs on a windowsill, dog-eared and forgiven.
2024 · NOVEL
The Quiet Orchard
A widowed botanist returns to her family's pear orchard and finds the trees and her sister still waiting.
2022 · NOVEL
Letters from Linden Hollow
Two strangers exchange letters across a single, slow summer in a village that time politely forgot.
2020 · STORIES
When the Kettle Sings
Twelve short stories about kitchens, kindness, and the small rituals that hold a life together.
NOW IN BLOOM
The Quiet Orchard
A NOVEL · SPRING 2024
4.8 · 1,200 READERS
When botanist Iris Thorne returns to her family's pear orchard after twenty years, she finds the trees still keeping their patient counsel — and her sister still tending the kitchen door, as if no time had passed at all.
A tender, slow-burning novel about grafting old wounds onto new seasons, and the language of fruit, weather, and forgiveness.
"A novel that smells of bruised pears and woodsmoke. I closed it slowly, the way you close a kitchen door on a sleeping house."
THE SUNDAY HEARTH
A FEW WORDS
I write the kind of books I want to come home to.
I'm Maren — a former librarian who began writing in the margins of overdue notices. I live in a quiet coastal town with two cats, an unreliable kettle, and more houseplants than is strictly sensible.
My novels are small and slow. They are about gardens that outlast us, letters that arrive late, and the surprising tenderness of ordinary days. I believe in second chances, soft endings, and never spoiling the pie.
"Holloway writes like someone pouring you a cup of tea you didn't know you needed."
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Linden & Wren Literary, London