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Catherine Gaskin (1929–2009)

Auteur van Sara Dane

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Werken van Catherine Gaskin

Sara Dane (1955) 183 exemplaren
Een valk voor een koningin (1972) 161 exemplaren
De zomer van de spaanse vrouw (1977) 119 exemplaren
Fiona een liefde in woelige dagen (1970) 97 exemplaren
The Lynmara Legacy (1975) 94 exemplaren
Als het stille hart spreekt (1985) 89 exemplaren
Family Affairs (1981) 86 exemplaren
De boeien van de liefde (1974) 82 exemplaren
Charmed Circle (1987) 79 exemplaren
De Tilsit erfenis (1963) 77 exemplaren
Scherven brengen toch geluk (1967) 75 exemplaren
Blake's Reach (1958) 66 exemplaren
Toen liefde nog echt was (1982) 64 exemplaren
I Know My Love (1962) 59 exemplaren
The File on Devlin (1965) 57 exemplaren
Corporation Wife (1960) 35 exemplaren
All Else is Folly (1951) 30 exemplaren
Daughter of the House (1955) 26 exemplaren
Nicole's overwinning (1947) 8 exemplaren
Sol ovan molnen (1988) 3 exemplaren
A governanta 1 exemplaar
Edhe of Glass 1 exemplaar
Der Fall Devlin (1974) 1 exemplaar
La meilleure part (1961) 1 exemplaar
With every year 1 exemplaar
O vaso partido 1 exemplaar
Die grünäugige Lady. (1900) 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum
1929-04-02
Overlijdensdatum
2009-09-06
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
UK
Ireland
Geboorteplaats
Louth, Ireland
Plaats van overlijden
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Woonplaatsen
Ireland (birth)
Manhattan, New York, USA
London, England, UK
Australia
Beroepen
romance novelist
Korte biografie
Catherine Gaskin was born in Ireland but raised in a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She wrote her first novel This Other Eden (1945) at age 15, and got it published two years later. After spending several years in London, she married an American and lived for some time in New York City. Gaskin's best known work was Sara Dane (1955), which concerns the life of an English girl sent to Australia as a convict who then successfully rebuilds her life. It sold more than 2 million copies, was translated into a number of other languages, and was made into a 1982 television miniseries. She and her husband went to live on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands for two years before Gaskin moved to the Wicklow Hills of Ireland and took up Irish citizenship in 1967. She returned to Sydney, where she died in 2009.

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BooksInMirror | 2 andere besprekingen | Feb 19, 2024 |
"Try it my friend-try just one day working the cane under that sun and under a whip, and you will know what a damnation slavery is. You will rise up in your thousands and demand that Parliament pass the Emancipation act-'

Fiona by Catherine Gaskin

This is one of my favorite books of all time.

It is historical fiction mixed with a bit of Gothic. Actually it is mixed with a lot of Gothic. Because of the description of the book, some people may think it’s purely a slave saga and while slavery definitely plays a role in the book, the subject matter encompasses much more than that.

This book is about Fiona, a nanny who goes to work for a family simmering with secrets. Fiona has the ability to see into the future but only partially so she can see things and see images of what will happen or what might happen, but it doesn’t ever tell the complete story. She has to put the rest together herself.

As Fiona acclimates into the household she’s pulled into the life of this family including Fergus, one of the family members with whom she falls in love. I really don’t want to say too much more as this is a hauntingly beautiful novel that it is best to go into not knowing alot about.

There are some beautiful characters in this book and as mentioned, slavery is one of the aspects of this book particularly a couple of beautiful souls who are slaves that Fiona befriends.

I should mention that this book takes place in the West Indies. The setting is absolutely beautiful and tropical. Everything about the book is lovely.

I read this book so many times it turned into a joke with my dad. I first read it in childhood and I reread it every few years.

It is a breathtakingly beautiful haunting atmospheric work of historical fiction that unfortunately has a terrible title. ( Really, does "Fiona" tell you anything?) I actually amused myself once by coming up with alternative titles for the book and I came up with "shadows of the soul" as the winning title.

I would really urge anyone who is a fan of Historical and/or Gothic fiction to check this book out. It should have far far more reviews than it does as the beauty of the book definitely rises to five stars. There is beauty, there is triumph of spirit, there is tragedy and there is joy. Read this book and love it as I do
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Thebeautifulsea | 1 andere bespreking | Aug 5, 2022 |
Story moved along nicely. Interesting how the 2 men both wanted the same two women. Liked how the story started with Brendan breaking the glass, the info about making glass, the way of life of old Ireland, the determination of the Lady Maude to the end, and the way the ending was a satisfying solution for all.
 
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kshydog | 1 andere bespreking | Dec 13, 2020 |
Edge of Glass is a romantic suspense novel written in the 1960's and also set in the 60's. Maura discovers after the death of her mother that she descends from the Sheridan dynasty, the owners of the legendary Sheridan glassworks. Her mother, Blanche, had been disowned for getting involved with someone other than the one her mother had selected and getting pregnant.Blanche had concealed all of this all of Maura's life, and naturally, she is shocked to find there is not only the historic glassworks still in production, but an ancestral home as well. She feels attracted to 2 different men that are connected to her new-found family, and those men have bad blood between them.
I am giving the book a mediocre review as I did not care for one scene where Connor (one of the men) gets angry and slams Maura's head against a doorframe. Why would she even consider getting involved with the man after that? He obviously has anger issues, and no problem with abusing a woman. I also would have preferred a different ending, where she gets her cake and eats it too-- fighting for her ancestral home that she is heir too and half ownership in the glassworks instead of just walking away from it all.
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Ook door
34
Leden
1,523
Populariteit
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ISBNs
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Talen
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