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Lynn Freed

Biography

Lynn Freed

Lynn Freed was born and grew up in Durban, South Africa, where two of her previous novels--Home Ground and The Bungalow--are set. Ms. Freed's stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's, Story, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic Monthly, and elsewhere. She lives in Sonoma, California.

Lynn Freed

Books by Lynn Freed

The Servants' Quarters
by Lynn Freed

Haunted by phantoms of the Holocaust, young Cressida lives in terror of George Harding, who, severely disfigured, has returned from the front to recover in his family’s stately African home. When he plucks young Cressida’s beautiful family from financial ruin, establishing them in the old servants’ quarters of his estate, Cressida is swept into a future inexorably bound to his.

House Of Women: A Novel
by Lynn Freed
The Mirror
by Lynn Freed

Designed to appear like an antique diary, with photographs tucked into each chapter, this fictional memoir of a beautiful, ruthlessly ambitious American woman follows her path to wealth and power in South Africa between the two world wars.