Title: Seeking Sanctuary: A Frances Fyfield Novel

Author: Frances Fyfield

Genre: Crime/Thriller

Publication Date: October 7, 2014

Publisher: Witness Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins

Event Organized By: Literati Author Services, Inc.

~Synopsis ~

When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife’s cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him, but in the face of the law, the girls’ health and his wife’s intransigence, he failed. But, if he lost the battle for their souls in life, he would make amends in death, craftily shaping his will to benefit them so long as they did not follow their mother’s example. His daughters felt they had lost either way, especially Anna. She had promiscuously turned her back on her mother’s teachings, but watched in horror as her sister Therese followed those same lessons and naively accepted the faith which Anna was certain had ruined their lives. In her rebellion against such blind belief she at first doesn’t notice the worm in their midst when the convent where Therese has settled employs a new gardener.And when she does wake up to the danger she realizes she may have left it too late to save their legacy and their lives.

 

 

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We had a chance to ask author Frances Fyfield, WHAT IS YOUR MOST TREASURED PAINTING? 

 Don’t get me talking about paintings, or you’ll be here a while.  I’ve collected oil paintings, sketches and drawings for as long as I can remember, and every time a book or a short story is produced, I find something new.  The latest one enchants me.  It’s a small oil sketch, painted circa 1890 by a British artist not known and depicts a woman wearing either a dressing gown or a kimono, sitting at table, reading by the light of a shaded oil lamp that throws a huge shadow of her head against the wall behind. She is entirely unconscious of the shadow, or her own beauty: she is not posing, but is entirely unselfconscious and absorbed in her book.  The painting glows in the dark and is utterly serene.  Which I am not.  I like her so much, I get up in the night to look at her.

 

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~ About the Author ~

I grew up in rural Derbyshire, but my adult life has been spent mostly in London, with long intervals in Norfolk and Deal, all inspiring places. I was educated mostly in convent schools; then studied English and went on to qualify as a solicitor, working for what is now the Crown Prosecution Service, thus learning a bit about murder at second hand. Years later, writing became the real vocation, although the law and its ramifications still haunt me and inform many of my novels.

I’m a novelist, short story writer for magazines and radio, sometime Radio 4 contributor, (Front Row, Quote Unquote, Night Waves,) and presenter of Tales from the Stave. When I’m not working (which is as often as possible), I can be found in the nearest junk/charity shop or auction, looking for the kind of paintings which enhance my life. Otherwise, with a bit of luck, I’m relaxing by the sea with a bottle of wine and a friend or two.

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