Marshall
Fine

Greetings and welcome to the website for my novels. My new novel, Hemlock Lane, will be published November 25, 2025, from Lake Union Press and is available for pre-order from Amazon.

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Hemlock Lane is a novel about a family where one dominant personality has everyone else tiptoeing around, in fear of triggering her displeasure. It is a world of secrets, fear and resentment, but one with a placid surface—until the weekend in question.

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But, on that weekend in the early summer of 1967, a daughter’s visit home threatens to cause secrets to be revealed and the family peace to be shattered. Can she make the break from a domineering mother without causing a crisis in the household?

 

Hopefully the book’s structure—told over the course of four days, with each day told from the perspective of one character—will allow readers to be surprised as new points of view reveals new facets of the previously told story.

 

I’ve been writing my whole life, but, for the second time, I’ve written something unlike anything I’ve done before, including my first novel, The Autumn of Ruth Winters. That’s part of the enjoyment I get from writing fiction: having the freedom to follow the material where it takes me, particularly when it leads to what is, for me, uncharted emotional territory.

 

I hope you enjoy this story. Feel free to reach out if you do.

 

Best,

 

Marshall Fine