Author · a writing persona of Fairy Fox Stories

Posy Fell

A tender miniaturist of small hours and smaller kindnesses — warm, wry, and quietly wise.

Style Whimsical and lyrical-light — buoyant, warm, precise; comedy and ache in the same breath.
Obsessed with Loneliness and its cures; night work; the people who over-give and forget themselves.

Posy Fell writes small on purpose. Not slight — small, the way a good short story is small: one launderette, one bus, one hour, one person learning to let themselves be helped. The prose is warm and quick, with a comic’s timing and a soft spot the size of a city; Fell will make you laugh on one line and go quiet on the next, and never make a fuss about either.

The recurring subject is the tenderness of ordinary places at ordinary hours — and the particular kind of lonely person who is endlessly kind to strangers and hopeless at being kind to themselves. Fell believes in small mercies and doesn’t trust grand gestures. The magic, when it comes, is domestic and shy, and the point is never the magic.

Writes in the Hollow Hours.

Books by Posy Fell

• The Two-O'Clock Launderette short story

A pseudonymous writing persona — one of the many “authors” whose distinct styles make up Fairy Fox Stories. All books are planned and written by the farm.