The Fire Still Burns

by Constance Heaven

Set in London in 1930, a Welsh miner's son, Luke Llewelyn Jones, is knocked down by a society girl in her car. The encounter changes the whole course of his life. Tanya takes him to her ancestral home and Luke is caught up in the tangled lives of her half-Russian family.

432 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Constance Fecher Heaven
aka Constance Fecher, Constance Heaven, Christina Merlin

Constance Fecher was born on 6 August 1911 in Enfield, Middlesex, London, England, UK. She was educated at the Convent of Woodford Green, Essex from 1921 to 1928, when she went to study at King's College London, where she obtained a Honours degree in English in 1931. In 1931, she also graduated from London College of Music.

In 5 November 1939, she married William Heaven, who died in 1958. She was an actress from 1939 to 1966.

First published in 1963, she started writing historical novels with young protagonists under her maiden name Constance Fecher. From 1972, she signed her more romantic novels using her married name, Constance Heaven. She also used the pseudonym of Christina Merlin.

In 1973, her novel "The House of Kuragin" was the Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award, and years later she was elected the eleventh Chairman (1981-1983) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Mrs. Heaven continued writing until her death in 1995.

Reviews

[Lynn Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent sequel to The Raging Fire telling the story of the next generation and set in the early 1930s. Well researched with engaging characters and some terrifying descriptions of the Communist regime under Stalin and his death camps.

[Sharon · Rating 3 out of 5]

not bad, typical cheap paperback novel