Linda Wilgus grew up in the Netherlands and lived in Italy, Belgium, and the United States before settling in England. A graduate of the University of Amsterdam, she worked as a bookseller and a knitting pattern designer before becoming a full-time writer. Her short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines. Wilgus shares her home with her husband, three children, and their dog.
[The Page 69 Test: The Sea Child; Q&A with Linda Wilgus]
The Sea Child is Wilgus's debut novel.
At CrimeReads the author tagged "eight cracking reads about smugglers, pirates and mutineers." One title on the list:
Susanna Kearsley, The Rose GardenRead about the other entries on the list.
After Eva loses her movie star sister, she returns to Cornwall where they spent their childhood summers, planning to/ in order to scatter hersister’s ashes. But the house Eva used to stay at as a child, Trelowarth, turns out to be a portal between our modern time and the eighteenth century, when smuggler brothers Jack and Daniel Butler lived there.
Soon, Eva is caught up in the brothers’ lives and finds herself falling for Daniel. As if their smuggling operation doesn’t put them enough at risk already, the brothers are also involved in the Jacobite cause, and danger eventually arrives at their (and Eva’s) door. Steeped in smuggling history, this deliciously romantic timeslip novel is a must-read for those who enjoy historical fiction set in Cornwall’s colorful past.
--Marshal Zeringue
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