Becoming Fran
Jill Treseder
Paperback
Set in 1960s Bristol, this coming of age novel follows Francesca Fairweather in her search to find herself.
- ISBN 9781781324912
- Published Feb 2016
- Paperback
229 x 152mm (300 pages)
Francesca Fairweather has never lived up to the extrovert image of her copper-coloured hair. Escaping a difficult mother and a disastrous love affair to become a student in 1960s Bristol, she makes friends of Verity, Dale and Morag. But their presence is not to be relied upon, and she continues to lurch from crisis to crisis. Her Aunt Goldie, her friend Zelda and her father each come to her rescue, but are not always there when she needs them most.
In this coming-of-age novel, we join Fran on her journey of self-discovery. She is tested by loss and grief, by her strange marriage and by the secrets revealed when her mother dies.
Will she ever find the father of her twins, maintain her independence and make a new life in Cornwall?
Jill Treseder was born in Hampshire and lived all her childhood in sight of the sea on the Solent and in Devon, Cornwall and West Wales. She writes best in a room with a view of water, preferably
the ocean, and now lives with her husband in Devon overlooking the River Dart.
After graduating from Bristol, she followed careers in social work and management development, but since 2008 has focused on writing fiction.
This is her third novel, following A Place of Safety (2014),
The Hatmaker’s Secret (2013) and a non-fiction book The Wise Woman Within: Spirals to Wholeness (2004).
What seems to be a lovingly observed tale of growing up in provincial England in the 1960s turns out to be something much more, with a satisfying plot that creeps up on you unawares with an intriguing slow-burn complexity.
– Mark McCrum, author of Fest
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Becoming Fran here.
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