Christine Marion Fraser
Christine Marion Fraser (24 March 1938 – 22 November 2002) was a Scottish author of popular fiction.
Background
She was born in Govan, Glasgow, and was raised in a tenement, the eighth child of a shipyard worker and his wife. As a child, she developed a calcium condition and became a wheelchair user for life.
Works
Fraser was best known for her four continuing family sagas, all of them set in Scotland. Her books sold over three and a half million copies, mostly in her native Scotland but also across the English-speaking world[1]
Her first novel Rhanna was published in 1978 and was followed by seven sequels. The Rhanna series detailed the lives of the residents of a small fictitious Hebridean island of the same name.
Her second series was the five-book King's Croft series, begun in 1986, which was set in 19th century Aberdeenshire. She followed that in 1994 with the Noble series, set in Victorian-era Argyll.
Her fourth and final series, begun in 1998, were the Kinvara stories, four novels about lighthouse keepers on an Outer Hebridean island.
She also wrote a series of autobiographical novels related to her life and upbringing in Scotland.
Bibliography
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Rhanna
- Rhanna (1978)
- Rhanna at War (1980)
- Children of Rhanna (1983)
- Return to Rhanna (1984)
- Song of Rhanna (1985)
- Storm Over Rhanna (1988)
- Stranger on Rhanna (1992)
- A Rhanna Mystery (1996)
Kings
- King's Croft (1986)
- King's Acre (1987)
- King's Exile(1989)
- King's Close (1991)
- King's Farewell (1993)
Noble
- Noble Beginnings (1994)
- Noble Deeds (1995)
- Noble Seed (1997)
Kinvara
- Kinvara (1998)
- Kinvara Wives (1999)
- Kinvara Summer (2000)
- Kinvara Affairs (2001)
Autobiographical series
- Blue Above the Chimneys (1980)
- Roses Round the Door (1986)
- Green Are My Mountains (1990)
- Beyond the Rainbow (1994)
Other work
- Ullin Macbeth (1996)
- The Poppy Field (1997) (with Frank Ian Galloway)
- Out of the Past (1997)
- Wild Is the Day (1997)
References
- ↑ Christine Marion Fraser – Obituaries, News. The Independent. Retrieved on 10 August 2011.