Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary (UK 2018)

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When Theo Calvert was driven out of the family home by his wife's cloying piety he had determined that his daughters would follow him. But in the face of the law, the girls' health and his wife's intransigence, he failed. But, if he lost the battle for their souls in life, he would make amends in death, craftily shaping his will to benefit them so long as they did not follow their mother's example.

His daughters felt they had lost either way, especially Anna. She had promiscuously turned her back on her mother's teachings, but watched in horror as her sister Therese followed those same lessons and naively accepted the faith which Anna was certain had ruined their lives.

In her rebellion against such blind belief she at first doesn't notice the worm in their midst when the convent where Therese has settled employs a new gardener. And when she does wake up to the danger she realises she may have left it too late to save their legacy and their lives.

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary. Sphere, ISBN: 9780751573725 (July, 2018), 308 p., £8.99.

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary (USA 2014)

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Betrayal is in their blood...
When Anna and Therese's father walked out on their mother, the Calvert family was shattered. Now that he's deceased, his carefully crafted plans are set to unravel their lives all over again.

After their mother died, the two sisters were sent to live at the Blessed Sacrament Convent. Anna rebelled and escaped to the real world, while Therese remained devoted to a life of duty and worship. Until, one day, the mysterious and seductive gardener Francis takes up residence at the convent. While the nuns are besotted with his charm and handiwork, Anna is less than convinced. Shortly after Francis's arrival, eerie and ominous occurrences begin. As Anna tries to uncover his sinister secrets and save her sister, she realizes the answer lies in finding the truth about her own family's past.

Fans of Ruth Rendell and S. J. Bolton will love this brilliant psychological thriller.

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary. A Novel. Witness Impulse / HarperCollins, ISBN: 9780062301208 (October, 2014), eBook, 491 KB (ca. 320 p.), $5.99.

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary (UK 2004)

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Theodore Calvert walked out on his wife and children, Anna and Therese, when they needed him most. Now, from beyond the grave, his carefully crafted will is set to unravel his daughters' lives all over again...

By the author of Undercurrents and The Nature of the Beast, Seeking Sanctuary is another brilliant tale of enveloping, encapsulating suspense: a deliciously unsettling story of fractured lives, revenge and how the devil can conjure the most brilliant of disguises.

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary. Time Warner Paperbacks, ISBN: 0751533394 (March, 2004), 310 p., £6.99.

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary (UK 2003)

It was Isabel Calvert's pious Christianity that drove Theodore away. When he left, it was the Church that replaced him in his daughters' upbringing. By the time Isabel died, it was the Blessed Sacrament Convent that the daughters were calling home. And while Anna rebels and returns to the real world, Therese is still consumed by the life of duty and worship.

In the midst of all this arrives the mysterious a young, good-looking, golden-haired gardener. Although the nuns are besotted by his charm and handiwork, Anna is less convinced by his the killing of a magpie is an eerie, ominous sign of what is to follow. As Anna tries to unpick Francis's sinister plans, she realizes that the answer lies in finding out the truth about her own family's past. The question is, can she do it before it is too late?

Seeking Sanctuary is another brilliant tale of enveloping, encapsulating suspense.

Frances Fyfield: Seeking Sanctuary. Little, Brown, & Co, ISBN: 0316859834 (April, 2003), 282 p., Hardcover £17.99, Trade £9.99.