Elizabeth Buchan, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/elizabethbuchan/ Wed, 06 Dec 2017 21:19:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Fictional Characters to Murder or to Marry https://booksbywomen.org/fictional-characters-to-murder-or-to-marry-by-elizabeth-buchan/ https://booksbywomen.org/fictional-characters-to-murder-or-to-marry-by-elizabeth-buchan/#respond Fri, 08 Dec 2017 13:04:37 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=21096 Actually, I found this a worrying exercise for it turned to be much easier to find a character to do away with than to marry. In my teenage years, I badly wanted to kill off Jane Austen’s Emma for she was ‘handsome, clever and rich’ and I was most definitely was none of those things. […]

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]]> https://booksbywomen.org/fictional-characters-to-murder-or-to-marry-by-elizabeth-buchan/feed/ 0 21096 Falling in Love with the Enemy https://booksbywomen.org/falling-in-love-with-the-enemy-by-elizabeth-buchan/ https://booksbywomen.org/falling-in-love-with-the-enemy-by-elizabeth-buchan/#respond Sat, 10 Jun 2017 07:58:15 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=16319 After the end of the Second World War, my aunt married a German whom she had met before the war began. They were deeply in love but, for obvious reasons, the marriage sent shock waves through my family and no doubt through his. It must have taken all their determination and courage to weather the […]

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