When a chance for freedom arrives will she dare to take it?
Odilie Rutherford is known in the small Scottish town of Lauriston for two things - her beauty, and her father, Canny. As a self-made man, Canny has the wealth he dreamed of but not the status and hatches a plan to marry his daughter to local bachelor of note, the Duke of Maudesley. Yet Odilie cannot bear the thought of a life with the ill-mannered Duke, and when the annual summer fair arrives in town for three days she seizes a chance to enjoy the freedom she craves. But as the carnival atmosphere fills the town, Odilie will find her life changes in ways she could never have imagined.
A captivating Scottish saga perfect for fans of Tessa Barclay and Val Wood.
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Elisabeth McNeill is a long-established freelance journalist and broadcaster who has written five non-fiction books and 26 novels. She now lives with a miniature dachshund, who thinks he is a Great Dane, in the oldest inhabited village on the Scottish borders, where she spent most of her school days.
They have survived the worst they could imagine - now they must face the future.
After a catastrophic storm tears through the village of Eyemouth in 1881, the villagers have slowly started to move on. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has left Scotland to start a new life, leaving her son behind. Meanwhile, Jessie, her sister-in-law, is finding ways to manipulate the men of the village for her own gains. But it is their mother-in-law Effie, the lynchpin of the family, who keeps the community spirit alive in Eyemouth and helps the grieving women rebuild their lives.
An uplifting family saga of hope and community for fans of Ellie Dean, Anna Jacobs and the Netflix series Outlander.
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Elisabeth McNeill is a long-established freelance journalist and broadcaster who has written five non-fiction books and 26 novels. She now lives with a miniature dachshund, who thinks he is a Great Dane, in the oldest inhabited village on the Scottish borders, where she spent most of her school days.
When a Scottish village is struck by grief, those left behind must help one another find hope.
It is 1881, and when a violent storm devastates the Scottish fishing village of Eyemouth, few families escape unscathed. Newlywed Rosabelle Maltman loses her husband, and her mother-in-law Effie loses her husband and three sons. For these women and their neighbours in the close-knit community, life will never be the same again. Yet as the months pass, the women must learn to look to the future, to live and to love again.
A dramatic and heart-breaking saga based on true events for fans of Ellie Dean, Anna Jacobs and the Netflix series Outlander.
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Elisabeth McNeill is a long-established freelance journalist and broadcaster who has written five non-fiction books and 26 novels. She now lives with a miniature dachshund, who thinks he is a Great Dane, in the oldest inhabited village on the Scottish borders, where she spent most of her school days.
»Första gången vi låg med varann höll han fast mina händer ovanför huvudet på mig. Jag tyckte om det. Jag tyckte om honom. Han var lynnig på ett sätt jag tyckte var romantiskt; han var rolig, intelligent, intressant att tala med och han kunde få mig att njuta.«
Elizabeth McNeill har en framstående position på ett stort företag när hon inleder en affär med en man hon träffat. Deras sexuella möten vilar på ett mönster av dominans, och i takt med att deras relation utvecklas spelar de ut allt farligare och mer komplexa sadomasochistiska variationer.
Till sist har Elizabeth gett upp all kontroll över sin kropp och sitt psyke. Med en kylig distans som ger skildringarna en förhöjd intensitet vecklar Elizabeth McNeill skickligt ut sin berättelse och bjuder in läsaren i en hypnotisk, uppslukande värld.
Nio & en halv vecka är en modern erotisk klassiker, i översättning av Katarina Norén.
ELIZABETH MCNEILL är en pseudonym för författaren och journalisten Ingeborg Day [1940-2011], som föddes i Österrike men levde större delen av sitt liv i USA. Hon arbetade bland annat som redaktör för tidskriften Ms. och det var under den perioden händelserna som beskrivs i Nio & en halv vecka [1978] utspelade sig. 1986 gjordes en filmatisering av boken med Kim Basinger och Mickey Rourke i huvudrollerna.
