Christine Marion Fraser

Christine Marion Fraser (24 March 1938 – 22 November 2002) was a Scottish author of popular fiction.

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 was left wheelchair bound 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^[1]

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.

Bibliography

Rhanna

• Rhanna (1978)
• Rhanna at War (1980)
• Children of Rhanna (1983)
• Return to Rhanna (1984)
• Song of Rhanna (1985)
• Storm Over Rhanna (1988)
• Stranger on Rhanna (1992)
• A Rhanna Mystery (1996)

Kings

• King's Croft (1986)
• King's Acre (1987)
• King's Exile(1989)
• King's Close (1991)
• King's Farewell (1993)

Noble

• Noble Beginnings (1994)
• Noble Deeds (1995)
• Noble Seed (1997)

Kinvara

• Kinvara (1998)
• Kinvara Wives (1999)
• Kinvara Summer (2000)
• Kinvara Affairs (2001)

Autobiographical series

• Blue Above the Chimneys (1980)
• Roses Round the Door (1986)
• Green Are My Mountains (1990)
• Beyond the Rainbow (1994)

Other Work

• Ullin Macbeth (1996)
• The Poppy Field (1997) (with Frank Ian Galloway)
• Out of the Past (1997)
• Wild Is the Day (1997)

References

1. ^ Christine Marion Fraser – Obituaries, News. The Independent. Retrieved on 10 August 2011.

External links

• Christine Marion Fraser Obituary