Suspension - Christians, Andrea Faye

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Résumé :
BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST: PARANORMAL An unexpected time travel tale. When Carla Thompson falls asleep and doesn't wake up, she is shocked to discover what destiny has in store for her. Suspended between two worlds, she meets Isambard Brunel, the legendary eighteenth-century civil engineer, who built the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, and who now serves as guardian of its secrets. Historical events intertwine with Carla's current reality and along the way she discovers a murder, encounters a host of characters including Jamaican psychic, Matilda, and engages in verbal banter with literary legend, Ernest Hemingway. Her adventures lead her to a startling revelation about why she was chosen for her strange new role. In death Carla realises she has never felt more alive....

Biographie:
Andrea Faye Christians was born and raised in Swansea, South Wales. She had a long career as a disc jockey on UK Radio and even had her own popular show where she interviewed guests. She provided voice overs for commercials and documentaries, including one for the BBC. Following a successful two-decade career using her voice and interviewing skills, she moved from London to Malta to pursue becoming a freelance writer, where she wrote for everything from interior design magazines to magazines covering the arts. Whenever she'd visit family in England, the flight path took her past the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, which had become a center for films and series. A story began to brew in her mind that she envisioned as a screenplay. But she wasn't familiar with that format and decided to write it as a series of novels. Suspension, which took shape during the Pandemic, was the result, and her debut novel garnered a Book Excellence Award as a Finalist: Fiction/Paranormal. The heroine Carla is based a bit on me and my daughter, she says. A history buff, her love of research led her to surprising discoveries in her own ancestry. Working on Book 2 in the award-winning series, she was shocked that she had an Irish red-headed grandmother and her daughter during the 1700s who were accused of being witches. She also heavily researched the loathsome Father Konrad, a German priest who was one of the first to be appointed an official Papal inquisitor during the Crusades and became notorious for his cruelty, especially toward women. I based him on an old boyfriend, and so whenever I write about that evil priest, I have an exact picture in my mind of what he looked like and how he might react in a certain situation. She divides her time between Malta and Sicily and is working on the next book in the series as well as a novel entitled Chemo Club, based on her experience with breast cancer....

Sommaire:
BOOK EXCELLENCE AWARDS FINALIST: PARANORMAL An unexpected time travel tale. When Carla Thompson falls asleep and doesn't wake up, she is shocked to discover what destiny has in store for her. Suspended between two worlds, she meets Isambard Brunel, the legendary eighteenth-century civil engineer, who built the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol, England, and who now serves as guardian of its secrets. Historical events intertwine with Carla's current reality and along the way she discovers a murder, encounters a host of characters including Jamaican psychic, Matilda, and engages in verbal banter with literary legend, Ernest Hemingway. Her adventures lead her to a startling revelation about why she was chosen for her strange new role. In death Carla realises she has never felt more alive....