Rich, brilliant Nicole Rainard comes from America resolved to find a place in English Society, and to humble an Englishman of aristocratic family who had jilted her mother in the past.
Catherine Gaskin (2 April 1929 – 6 September 2009) historical fiction and romantic suspense.
She was born in Dundalk Bay, Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling in Coogee, a suburb of Sydney, where she grew up. Her first novel This Other Eden, was written when she was 15 and published two years later. After her second novel, With Every Year, was published, she moved to London. Three best-sellers followed: Dust in Sunlight (1950), All Else is Folly (1951), and Daughter of the House (1952). She completed her best known work, Sara Dane, on her 25th birthday in 1954, and it was published in 1955. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a television series in Australia in 1982. Other novels included A Falcon for the Queen (1972) and The Summer of the Spanish Woman (1977).
Catherine Gaskin moved to Manhattan for ten years, after marrying an American. She then moved to the Virgin Islands, then in 1967 to Ireland, where she became an Irish citizen. She also lived on the Isle of Man. Her last novel was The Charmed Circle (1988). She then returned to Sydney, where she died in September 2009, aged 80, of ovarian cancer.
I read this as a thirteenyear old and again when I bought it many years later. It was in my bookcase as I'm going through sorting them out. It was a trip down memory lane dealing with the predjudice in England among the aristocracy contrasting with the friendliness of the ordinary people. it also deals with the loss of people in WW11 and how families coped during that time.
I find it hard to believe this book was written by a 15 year old. Bearing this in mind it was good. A bit convoluted so I won't go in the story much here, but I enjoyed it. Looking forward to reading more from this author as she matures.