Loree Westron

Loree Westron is a British American author living on the south coast of the UK where she writes literary and historical fiction.

Her short stories have been highly placed in competitions including the VS Pritchett Memorial Prize, the Fish Prize, the Seattle Review Fiction Contest and the Quarterly West novella competition, and published in anthologies and journals including London Magazine.

She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is the founder of the Portsmouth Authors Collective. Her novella Missing Words was published by Fairlight Books in 2021. A Legacy of Earth and Sky, her first full-length novel, was published in 2026.

A Legacy of Earth and Sky

In 1806, Captain William Clark writes in his secret second journal as he prepares to leave the freedom he has found in the “uncivilized” West and the Nez Perce woman who will soon bear his child.

In 1982, twelve-year-old Dylan Dearborne is tired of her hippie mother’s transient life. Returning to the farm on the Nez Perce reservation, to the people her mother fled from years before, she hopes to find the things she has never known—a father, a family, a place where she belongs.

Using authentic and imagined voices to fill in the gaps of historical documents, A Legacy of Earth and Sky reveals how past events continue to reverberate in the present.

Missing Words

Postal worker Jenny’s life is in the doldrums. Her daughter is all grown up and ready to face the world, her marriage is falling apart, and now her best friend and colleague tells her he plans to retire.

So, when a postcard from Australia, begging the recipient for forgiveness but marked ‘insufficient address’, lands on her sorting table, she does the unthinkable – she slips it up her sleeve, with the intention of delivering it herself.

Jenny sets off on a journey around the Isle of Wight, determined to find the recipient, and with the help of the locals she hopes to reunite the long-lost lovers. Will she be able to give them the happy ending she didn’t allow herself to have?

Set against the backdrop of the strikes in the 1980s, Missing Words is a heart-warming journey about self-discovery, the power of family ties, and the strength needed to face whatever life throws your way.

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