Felipa Toglynd writes from the heavily shadowed margins of the English countryside, where she lives in deliberate, quiet isolation alongside an unruly garden, and plays baroque counterpoint on her aged piano. Although a long-term technical writer and editor, "Redemption's Fatal Grace" is her debut novella. Felipa sees writing not so much as a career, but as an act of cultural, emotional and architectural preservation. Her clinical, highly sensory fiction style draws deep inspiration from classic British ghost stories and the fierce, uncompromising fatalism of contemporary dark romance. When she is not lost in eighteenth-century music or in reading tragic, slow-burning tapestries of love and resurrection, she can be found avoiding her neighbours, singing in the twilight, and wandering through overgrown churchyards when the frost is just beginning to set. Felipa has no plans to plunge into social media, but she welcomes your quiet attention from afar. (The biopic is Felipa's vision of a young Sarah d'Entrecasteux's arrival at D'Seye Manor, from the novella. Pencil on transparent sheet.)