Christine Marion Fraser


Christine Marion Fraser 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 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.

Rhanna

Rhanna
  • Rhanna at War
  • Children of Rhanna
  • Return to Rhanna
  • Song of Rhanna
  • Storm Over Rhanna
  • Stranger on Rhanna
  • ''A Rhanna Mystery''

Kings

King's Croft
  • King's Acre
  • King's Exile
  • King's Close
  • ''King's Farewell''

Noble

  • Noble Beginnings
  • Noble Deeds
  • ''Noble Seed''

Kinvara

  • Kinvara
  • Kinvara Wives
  • Kinvara Summer
  • ''Kinvara Affairs''

Autobiographical series

  • Blue Above the Chimneys
  • Roses Round the Door
  • Green Are My Mountains
  • ''Beyond the Rainbow''

Other work