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Mrs Vale of Hollowwood: A Hollowwood Novella
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 19 2026
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
She fed a village, kept its secrets, and never asked for anything in return.
Mrs Vale has spent years holding Hollowwood together with capable hands, sharp eyes, and a kitchen that never seems to close. Widow, mother, cook, and quiet force of nature, she has long been the woman everyone relies on.
But when an old ledger surfaces, carefully recording years of unpaid labour owed to Mrs Vale and her household, the truth can no longer be brushed aside.
As Hollowwood grows from a healer's cottage into a thriving compound, long-buried reckonings begin to rise with it: the cost of survival, the weight of duty, and the tender, hard-won question of what a woman is owed after giving everything to everyone else.
Set in the beloved world of Hollowwood, Mrs Vale of Hollowwood is a richly domestic, deeply emotional novella about work, dignity, family, and the quiet love stories that bloom in the margins.
Perfect for readers who love village life, slow-burn tenderness, practical heroines, and stories where care itself becomes a kind of power.
Here's a slightly more emotional / more commercial version too:
Before Hollowwood became a home, it ran on the labour of one woman no one thought to pay.
Mrs Vale has cooked the meals, kept the order, stretched the stores, soothed the hurts, and done whatever had to be done to keep her boys safe and the village standing. She never asked for praise. She certainly never expected justice.
But when a forgotten ledger reveals years of wages owed to her household, the careful balance of Hollowwood begins to shift.
As old debts are counted and new bonds deepen, Mrs Vale must face a truth she has long set aside: that loyalty is not the same as obligation, survival is not the same as being seen, and even now, after everything, there may still be room in her life for tenderness, honour, and a future of her own.
Mrs Vale of Hollowwood is a warm, intimate novella about hidden worth, earned love, and the women who build a world from the kitchen outward.
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