The Beacon

by Susan Barrett

(extracts from the jacket of the Hamish Hamilton edition)
Katherine Mullen faces a commonplace tragedy.  After twenty years of marriage her husband leaves her for a younger woman and she must try to construct a new life for herself and her two teenage children.
...In Kate Mullen, Susan Barrett has created a woman of our times - someone honest and self-critical, open to experience, but loyal to her own sense of morality.

217 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1981

About the author

SUSAN BARRETT spent her childhood in Devon and at school in Bath. She worked as a copywriter in London before leaving to live in Greece where she began writing fiction. She has had seven novels published in hardback and paperback in UK and USA. Other work includes travel writing, television drama, and wildlife and children’s books illustrated by her husband Peter. In the 1990s she trained as a humanistic counsellor and gestalt psychotherapist. After some years running a private practice, she returned to fiction writing by doing an MA in Creative Writing at Bath Spa. She has mentored new writers, held creative writing workshops at home, and has recently published two novels and a non-fiction work with CreateSpace, available as paperbacks on Amazon.