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Elizabeth Clansham
by
Catherine E. Chapman (Goodreads Author)
Elizabeth Clansham retreats to a croft house in the Scottish Highlands to write a novel and avoid real life. Reluctant teacher and aspiring author, she finds that the part-time job she has taken to fund her idyllic existence impacts upon her life more than she'd anticipated; her students are determined to find her a love-match. Will it be Angus, gamekeeper and uncle of one...more
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June 20th 2011
by Catherine Chapman via Smashwords
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Catherine E. Chapman - A Modern Jane Austen.
Elizabeth is a writer who moves to a Highland cottage to get away from it all, to be able to concentrate on her writing. However, there's no peace to be found in a small, rural community.
Catherine spins an intricate web of relations between the local people, some romantic, others not. An interesting part near the end switches back and forth between two couples, giving a fascinating contrast between the two relationships, heightening the difference in "...more
Elizabeth is a writer who moves to a Highland cottage to get away from it all, to be able to concentrate on her writing. However, there's no peace to be found in a small, rural community.
Catherine spins an intricate web of relations between the local people, some romantic, others not. An interesting part near the end switches back and forth between two couples, giving a fascinating contrast between the two relationships, heightening the difference in "...more
I received this book in exchange for an honest review.
Elizabeth Clansham is a teacher from England who is escaping her life in London. She hopes to teach and write a novel but all of her novel writing attempts seem to be non-existent (and/or constantly thwarted). She moves into a small home that happens to be next door to a previously famous and extremely eligible bachelor, Andrew. Elizabeth struggles to get her English class off the topic of her love life for most of the book. Andrew is mixed...more
Elizabeth Clansham is a teacher from England who is escaping her life in London. She hopes to teach and write a novel but all of her novel writing attempts seem to be non-existent (and/or constantly thwarted). She moves into a small home that happens to be next door to a previously famous and extremely eligible bachelor, Andrew. Elizabeth struggles to get her English class off the topic of her love life for most of the book. Andrew is mixed...more
Mar 23, 2012
Katy
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
fans of literary fiction, romantic fiction
Recommended to Katy by:
Catherine E. Chapman
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Disclosure: I received a free copy of this eBook in exchange for an honest review.
Synopsis from Goodreads: Elizabeth Clansham retreats to a croft house in the Scottish Highlands to write a novel and avoid real life. Reluctant teacher and aspiring author, she finds that the part-time job she has taken to fund her idyllic existence impacts upon her life more than she'd anticipated; her students are determined to find her a love-match. Will it be Angus, gamekeeper and uncle of one of Elizabeth's pu...more
Synopsis from Goodreads: Elizabeth Clansham retreats to a croft house in the Scottish Highlands to write a novel and avoid real life. Reluctant teacher and aspiring author, she finds that the part-time job she has taken to fund her idyllic existence impacts upon her life more than she'd anticipated; her students are determined to find her a love-match. Will it be Angus, gamekeeper and uncle of one of Elizabeth's pu...more
Elizabeth Clansham is at a crossroads in life: unattached, a teacher but not yet the author she’d dreamt and, with her father’s recent death, she has few ties left. In short, just the right moment to run for greener seeming pastures with all the accoutrements necessary to reawaken her comatose muse. Settling into her cottage in a small Scottish town and behind schedule, Elizabeth is quickly disillusioned as her idealistic expectations collide with a local community that brazenly insists on their...more
I would recommend this book to people who like the movie Love Actually. It is not a fast paced, action-adventure book. I was slightly confused in the beginning of the book because I wasn't sure of the setting or to what location Elizabeth had moved to, but the author sort of told you a little ways into the book. However, since I am not from London, nor have I been there, maybe I would of figured it out a little quicker if I was familiar with the geography.
I'm trying to think of the best way to...more
I'm trying to think of the best way to...more
Elizabeth Clansham
By Catherine E. Chapman
Elizabeth Clansham has recently moved to a small town in the Scottish Highlands in order to pursue her writing, all the while she teaches English part time. Across from her small home lives Andrew a former pop star who drifts listlessly through life until Laetitia and her daughter Lauren arrive on his doorstep, Laetitia is fleeing Glasgow when a menacing man shows up to her flat and threatens to hurt her daughter if she does not repay her debt. Then there...more
By Catherine E. Chapman
Elizabeth Clansham has recently moved to a small town in the Scottish Highlands in order to pursue her writing, all the while she teaches English part time. Across from her small home lives Andrew a former pop star who drifts listlessly through life until Laetitia and her daughter Lauren arrive on his doorstep, Laetitia is fleeing Glasgow when a menacing man shows up to her flat and threatens to hurt her daughter if she does not repay her debt. Then there...more
Elizabeth wants to write a book and isn't sure she can do it in London. So she moves to the Scotland countryside and gets a teaching job, hoping to write the book in her spare time.
She meets some interesting people and finds her writing a bit more difficult than she'd imagined.
It took me quite a while to get into the book. I couldn't get the characters straight and just couldn't get attached to Elizabeth. There are quite a few characters that run parallel with each other and only at times inters...more
She meets some interesting people and finds her writing a bit more difficult than she'd imagined.
It took me quite a while to get into the book. I couldn't get the characters straight and just couldn't get attached to Elizabeth. There are quite a few characters that run parallel with each other and only at times inters...more
I chose this book partly because of its background setting, I like country / remote settings and have no interest in books with city / fast life settings. I did find it an enjoyable read and the characters are mostly well described and we get to know them as real people. Oddly Elizabeth herself seems one step removed from it all at times, perhaps because she is the incomer. She seems very unprepared for her new life - her new home itself and the people she has as her pupils. Maybe this would ari...more
In pursuit of fulfilling her literary promise, Elizabeth Clansham moves from London to Scotland, seeking the quiet solitude of the croft to motivate her to write her novel. Teaching English to both a group of students by day and older folk by night, Elizabeth finds herself among yet apart from the townsfolk.
The adage "write what you know" plays a cruel trick on Elizabeth - she finds she doesn't "know" anything worth writing about, since she hasn't experienced anything worth noting. It's not unt...more
The adage "write what you know" plays a cruel trick on Elizabeth - she finds she doesn't "know" anything worth writing about, since she hasn't experienced anything worth noting. It's not unt...more
Apr 19, 2012
Sha Mslvoe ♥♥♥
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommended to Sha Mslvoe ♥♥♥ by:
Catherine Chapman
**Received this ebook for review purpose**
The story start slow and it took me a while to get in the story. But half way through the story, I found it interesting. I quite enjoyed the book although not really my kind of thing.
The story start slow and it took me a while to get in the story. But half way through the story, I found it interesting. I quite enjoyed the book although not really my kind of thing.
This is ok. The characters are decent. The seeting is good. I don't like the language.
Apr 20, 2013
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I'm a writer of women's fiction and romance. My longer works have been described as literary character fiction, and my writing style has been said to be filmic. I also write shorter fiction in the genre of historical romance.
My books are available from Smashwords, their retailers and Amazon.
'Brizecombe Hall' and 'Kitty' are novelettes set in late Regency / early Victorian England.
'The Hangar Dance...more
More about Catherine E. Chapman...
My books are available from Smashwords, their retailers and Amazon.
'Brizecombe Hall' and 'Kitty' are novelettes set in late Regency / early Victorian England.
'The Hangar Dance...more
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