Rebecca Alexander
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Rebecca Alexander

Literature & Fiction | Romance | Science Fiction & Fantasy
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I write women's fiction, crime and fantasy, with an interest in folk and superstitious beliefs. New Series: Coming next year, other women's fiction stories told between the present day and the war, based on the wilds of Dartmoor. My last series in women's fiction tells the stories of women connected by an island in the Atlantic. In the present day, each comes with a challenge. Ellie (in Secrets of the Cottage by the Sea) has inherited a house from an old woman she's never heard of. In the past teacher Patience brings a baby back to the island in a carpet bag. In Memories of the Cottage by the Sea Charlotte runs away from the shell of a relationship to close down the island school while in 1941, Jenofeve struggles under German occupation in Brittany. Nicole (in Dreams of the Cottage by the Sea) is struggling with the aftermath of an accident, returning to a place where she was both happy and whole. In 1941, Lily leaves the wreck of her bombed out house to grieve for her daughter and perhaps her marriage. In Second Chances at the Cottage by the Sea, Olivia finds new love alongside an old one, and deals with the deadly residue of the war. In the 1940s, Nancy battles to regain her children from the state, and finds an unexpected future. In Coming Home to the Cottage by the Sea, Eleanor has a music festival to organise - and find her links to the islands. In the war, the islanders are filled with mistrust after their new doctor arrives: Dr Dorothy. In Girl in the Cottage by the Sea, Amber may have lost the career she has been working towards since early childhood, that of a virtuoso violinist. In the war, Georgie and her children have nowhere to go except an old holiday cottage in her husband's family, on Morwen Island. A Baby's Bones asked the reader: is a dark house haunted by the dreadful violence committed there in the past, or is there a scientific explanation that triggers the darkness in the people who are working there? A Shroud of Leaves asks why a young girl is buried in a pile of leaves on an estate that seems haunted by the disappearance of another young girl in the past. I wrote The Secrets of Life and Death series out of that love of magic and fantasy. I tried to bring a single element of fantasy into the real world and it seeped in all directions. Dr John Dee believed sorcery was possible - it was his idea of technology. I just wondered ... what if he was right? What if a child's life could be saved by magic when medicine fails? Then I had to go back and follow Dee and his sidekick, Kelley, as they did their experiments and worked out how magic works in the castle of Elizabeth Bathory, the sadistic 'Blood Countess'.
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