Christine Marion Fraser Boeken

In januari 1923, te midden van een sneeuwstorm op het eiland Rhanna, wordt Shona geboren. Haar moeder sterft kort na de bevalling, waardoor haar vader, Fergus McKenzie, in zijn verdriet blijft steken. Te trots om zijn emoties te uiten en bang om van zijn dochter te houden, laat hij Shona opgroeien onder de zorg van Mirabelle, de oude huishoudster. Shona ontwikkelt zich tot een mooi meisje met helderblauwe ogen en roodblonde haren. Mirabelle is haar toevluchtsoord als de volwassen geheimen te zwaar worden. Ook Niall, de zoon van dokter McLachlan, is altijd aan haar zijde. Hun kindervriendschap bloeit op in de uitgestrekte natuur van Rhanna en groeit uit tot een diepere, verboden liefde, wat Fergus niet kan accepteren. Langzaam begint zijn hart echter te openen voor een nieuwe vrouw. In de zomer van 1939, met de dreiging van oorlog, meldt Niall zich aan als vrijwilliger. Te midden van de excentrieke en warme gemeenschap van Rhanna, met haar eigen tradities en tragedies, wacht Shona op zijn terugkeer. Het verhaal vangt de essentie van leven en liefde op een betoverend eiland, waardoor lezers worden aangetrokken tot deze wereld.

Secure in the loving contentment of her marriage to Lorn, Ruth felt her happiness was complete. And she was thrilled to hear that her oldest friend, Rachel, planned a visit to Rhanna. Now a successful composer and concert violinist, Rachel was coming back to her native island for a summer's rest. To Ruth's surprise, Lorn was strangely unenthusiastic about their childhood friend's return. Rachel's arrival was to bring Ruth more heartache than she could ever have imagined, and would estrange her from the island community she loved. Yet no matter how far she travelled, the Song of Rhanna would always be calling her home...

Explores the relationship between the recently widowed minister and the new doctor on the Hebredean island of Rhanna in the mid 1960's.

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.

Set in rural Aberdeenshire. This story concerns the James King Grant family, and their daughter Evelyn's love for two men, Gillan Forbes, heir of the local landowner, and Johnny Burns, the son of a farmer.

In the winter of 1917, the Grant family moves to Renfrewshire to work at Dunmarnock House, home of Sir Richard Baird and his wife Elizabeth. Lovely Evie Grant is secretly pregnant by her beloved Davie Grainger, and frightened for the future. She has heard no word from him away at the war -- has he abandoned her, or is he dead? Then Davie comes home and Evie finds her love for him must be tested to its limits...