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Hailed as "the Daphne du Maurier of her generation", Susanna Kearsley is the author of several novels of suspense, including the internationally bestselling MARIANA, winner of Britain's Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize. A former museum curator, she brings her own passion for research and travel to bear in her books, weaving history with modern-day intrigue in a way that, in the words of one reviewer, "tells the story of the past and illuminates the present."

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ISBN: 9781492665274

A USA Today Bestseller!

"I've loved every one of Susanna's books! She has bedrock research and a butterfly's delicate touch with characters—sure recipe for historical fiction that sucks you in and won't let go!"— DIANA GABALDON, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander

“The house, when I first saw it, seemed intent on guarding what it knew; but we all learned, by the end of it, that secrets aren’t such easy things to keep.”

It’s late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe, true soldier and gentleman, until their lives become inextricably intertwined. Legend has it that the forbidden love between Jean-Philippe and Lydia ended tragically, but centuries later, the clues they left behind slowly unveil the true story.

Part history, part romance, and all kinds of magic, Susanna Kearsley's latest masterpiece will draw you in and never let you go, even long after you've closed the last page.

Praise for A Desperate Fortune:
“Susanna Kearsley just keeps getting better and better!” —Lauren Willig, New York Times bestselling author
“Susanna Kearsley deftly conjures both historical intrigue and a contemporary heroine as unique as she is memorable.” —Deanna Raybourn, New York Times bestselling author
“Enchanting! Beguiling! Gorgeously romantic! A truly brilliant book.” —Kate Forsyth, award-winning author

Praise for The Firebird:
“A lovely and memorable novel.” —Booklist, STARRED Review
“A glittering, bewitching tale.” —Kirkus
“The present and past come together as Kearsley masterfully merges paranormal elements with a wonderful dual story and a fascinating historical setting.”—RT Book Reviews, TOP PICK 4½ Stars

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•Title (or Working Title) of your book
The Winter Sea
•Do you use myspace, facebook, twitter, or other social networking sites? If so, how do we find you on those sites?
On Twitter, I'm at http://twitter.com/SusannaKearsley On Facebook, I'm at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=1712098844&ref=profile

•What is your book about? Please provide a description.
In the tradition of The French Lieutenant's Woman and Daphne du Maurier’s The House on the Strand, The Winter Sea interweaves history, mystery, romance and the workings of ancestral memory in the story of a novelist who slowly comes to realize that her book about a little-known Jacobite rebellion and the people taking part in it might be more fact than fiction.
•How long have you been at work on this book?
THE WINTER SEA, although my longest book to date, was also one of the quickest for me to write, taking me almost exactly a year from start to finish. But the idea for the story first occurred to me some 20 years ago, so I suppose in a sense this has also been the book that took me the longest time :-)
•How did the idea originate?
'The first idea for it started forming twenty years ago, when by pure chance I found a little book called Playing the Scottish Card, by historian John S. Gibson, detailing “The Franco-Jacobite Invasion of 1708”. I’m always intrigued by episodes of history that I’ve never heard of, and this one began with an irresistible quote from Lord Dacre: “History is not merely what happened: it is what happened in the context of what might have happened.” How could I resist? And having read Gibson’s history of the invasion attempt, I was driven to search out the original sources he’d used, like the memoirs of Nathaniel Hooke – to read the letters for myself and find out more about the people who engineered this nearly-successful attempt to restore James Stewart to his throne, and once I did that I was hooked. Reading the actual words of the people and “hearing” their voices, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to rest till I’d written their story.' (The above is excerpted from an interview I did on with bestselling romance author Nicola Cornick on The Word Wenches web site, http://wordwenches.typepad.com/word_wenches/2009/09/an-interview-with-susanna-kearsley.html)
•Did the book entail any unusual writing habits or places?
Nothing unusual for me :-) Details in the next answer, below.

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