Christine Marion Fraser Ordine dei libri
Christine Marion Fraser si affermò come una delle autrici scozzesi di maggior successo commerciale, superando nelle vendite anche scrittrici affermate. Nel corso della sua prolifica carriera, pubblicò numerosi romanzi che riscossero un ampio consenso tra i lettori. Le sue prime esperienze di vita nella Glasgow del dopoguerra plasmarono profondamente la sua prospettiva, affermandola infine come una voce significativa nella letteratura scozzese. Trascorse gli ultimi anni ad Argyll, rimanendo una figura celebrata nel panorama editoriale della nazione.
- 2003
- 2001
Allein auf der sturmumtosten Insel Kinvara träumt der Leuchtturmwärter Robbie nur von einem Menschen: von Morna, seiner schönen Geliebten mit den grünen Augen. Ein Frauenschicksalsroman vor grandioser Landschaft! Eine schottische Maeve Binchy.
- 1994
Rhanna
- 320pagine
- 12 ore di lettura
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.
- 1985
Blue Above the Chimneys
- 288pagine
- 11 ore di lettura
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.
