Brighter days

by Eleanor Baker

After moving away from Tampa and back to her hometown with her dad, Lynn Sullivan, 25, is ready for a fresh start.

When she not only finds a job at the local hospital, but also falls in love with the married, sexy as sin and inhumanly beautiful Dr. Claude Cavil, she feels herself drawn into a world that is not her own.

As she gets more involved in his life and starts a friendship with Claude's wife, Francine, Lynn finds secrets covered up with more secrets, and before she knows it, she's in ankle deep with no way back.

So if anyone were to ask her to describe her life, the answer would "It's complicated."

410 pages, Paperback

Published September 12, 2021

About the author

Although Baker initially studied music, she obtained her M.A. in Afrikaans (cum laude) in 1968 at the University of Pretoria. In Johannesburg she worked as a school teacher and got married to Walter Baker in 1969. Three years later her debut Wêreld sonder einde appeared, albeit that Weerkaatsings (Reflections) established her status as an important (though unfortunately often undervalued) Afrikaans author who penned 56 books in the end. Since her husband was in the diplomatic service, the couple moved from Teheran to Den Haag and from there to Montreal and Brussels before returning to South Africa to retire. Baker died of cancer at the age of 57.

She sometimes used the pseudonyms Christine le Roux and Alex Muller.