She lives in Canada, near the shores of Lake Ontario. The Winter Sea was a finalist for both a RITA award and the UK's Romantic Novel of the Year Award, and is a nominee for Best Historical Fiction in the RT Book Reviews Reviewers Choice Awareds. Her books have been translated into several languages, selected for the Mystery Guild, condensed for Reader's Digest, and optioned for film. Winner of the UK’s Catherine Cookson Fiction prize, Susanna Kearsley’s writing has been compared to Mary Stewart, Daphne DuMaurier, and Diana Gabaldon. ( From the publisher.)Īfter studying politics and international development at University, Susanna Kearsley worked as a museum curator before turning her hand to writing. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write.īut when she discovers her novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the truth-the ultimate betrayal-that happened all those years ago, and that knowledge comes very close to destroying her. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown.
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