Name Christine Fraser | Role Author | |
Died November 22, 2002, Greenock, United Kingdom Books Rhanna, Blue Above the Chimneys, Storm Over Rhanna, Children of Rhanna, Rhanna at War | ||
King's Acre - By It's Cover
Christine Marion Fraser (24 March 1938 – 22 November 2002) was a Scottish author of popular fiction.
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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.
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.