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Christine Marion Fraser

    Christine Marion Fraser s'est imposée comme l'une des auteures écossaises les plus populaires, surpassant même des écrivaines renommées en termes de ventes. Au fil de sa carrière prolifique, elle a publié de nombreux romans qui ont largement trouvé un écho auprès des lecteurs. Ses premières expériences de vie dans le Glasgow d'après-guerre ont profondément façonné sa perspective, l'établissant finalement comme une voix significative dans la littérature écossaise. Elle a passé ses dernières années à Argyll, demeurant une figure célébrée dans le paysage éditorial de la nation.

    King's Croft
    Blue Above the Chimneys
    A Rhanna Mystery
    King’s Close
    Storm Over Rhanna
    Song Of Rhanna
    • Song Of Rhanna

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Secure in the loving contentment of her marriage to Lorn, Ruth felt her happiness was complete. And she was thrilled to hear that her oldest friend, Rachel, planned a visit to Rhanna. Now a successful composer and concert violinist, Rachel was coming back to her native island for a summer's rest. To Ruth's surprise, Lorn was strangely unenthusiastic about their childhood friend's return. Rachel's arrival was to bring Ruth more heartache than she could ever have imagined, and would estrange her from the island community she loved. Yet no matter how far she travelled, the Song of Rhanna would always be calling her home...

      Song Of Rhanna
      4,3
    • Explores the relationship between the recently widowed minister and the new doctor on the Hebredean island of Rhanna in the mid 1960's.

      Storm Over Rhanna
      4,2
    • Blue Above the Chimneys

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      The wild childhood of a Glasgow tenement urchinBorn during the Second World War in Glasgow, Christine Fraser was her mother's eighth child. Growing up with her siblings in a tiny flat, learning to avoid her hardworking, hard-drinking one-eyed father, making a menace of herself in the streets along with the other urchins, Christine lived an impoverished life but never once cared. Until she was struck down by a terrible illness.Suddenly, her wild days of childhood were over. A long spell in hospital completely changed her life. Now she found herself dependent on others for so many of her needs. And on top of that her mother and father died.Yet Christine was always resourceful and never once looked down. She knew that always there, if you looked hard enough, was some blue up above the chimneys.

      Blue Above the Chimneys
      4,1
    • King's Croft

      • 356pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Set in rural Aberdeenshire. This story concerns the James King Grant family, and their daughter Evelyn's love for two men, Gillan Forbes, heir of the local landowner, and Johnny Burns, the son of a farmer.

      King's Croft
      3,9
    • Rhanna

      • 348pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      The breathtaking saga of two forbidden lovers and the many emotional years it takes them to find their passionate peace. Set in a Scottish world of moody glens and dramatic skies--a wonderful panorama for the heartwarming tenderness of Shona and Niall.

      Rhanna
      4,0
    • King's Farewell

      • 300pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      It is winter 1930. Evie Grant is mourning the death of her beloved husband, Davie, and trying to keep the family together in a Glasgow gripped by poverty and unemployment. Her sadness lifts dramatically when John Simpson comes into her life. Evie feels powerless to resist this charming man's advances and is relieved at the financial security he seems to offer. She marries him despite her family's opposition, blind to the consequences they fear...

      King's Farewell
      3,6