LITERARY HISTORICAL FICTION AUTHOR

KIERNAN ANTARES

Writing lyrical, time-spanning stories of love, loss, and the quiet work of grace.

ABOUT KIERNAN

Echoes of history. Stories that remember what it means to be human.

Kiernan Antares is a literary historical fiction author whose work lingers in the quiet corners of memory. Her stories traverse generations and landscapes, tracing the fragile resilience of love and the small redemptions that outlast despair. With prose both tender and precise, Kiernan writes to bridge the distance between past and present — offering readers not escape, but return: a return to what still matters, what still endures.

Featured Works

LITERARY HISTORICAL FICTION / NOVEL IN PROGRESS

The Hand That Sows the Stars

Two crossings. One spoken past. A journey toward forgiveness.

In 1947, Henry McRae, a fisherman turned soldier, haunted by war, boards the RMS Queen Elizabeth bound for England with a single suitcase, a battered journal, and a rare edition of Keats’s Endymion. He isn’t chasing escape, but reckoning. Across the sea, Mary Shefford, a London bookbinder and the woman he once loved, hides a secret that will alter the course of their lives.

Set amid the vast silence of postwar seas and the fragile beauty of renewal, The Hand That Sows the Stars is an exploration of legacy, longing, and the grace that can be found in broken things.

For readers drawn to the space between grief and hope, where love endures beyond loss, and beauty is reborn through memory. Perfect for readers of Sebastian Faulks and Maggie O’Farrell.