Frances Lynn was born in London and grew up in Bayswater. She was educated at Malvern Girls' College. She became Britain's bitchiest gossip columnist on the late Ritz Newspaper, and was a prolific freelance film critic and journalist for Fleet Street papers and the London glossies. Frances Lynn is now writing her third novel.
Crushed
Illustrated Young Adult fiction
Door and her twin sister get along - just about. But Door has misgivings. She is tall and thin like a beanpole, her sister is petite and beautiful. How on earth can they be family? Door starts to believe she's from another planet - or else the rest of the family is from outer space.
Read the stirring saga of the ungainly sibling who suddenly turns into a beautiful swan - and the incredible secret of her birth!
Published by
Eiworth Publishing
October 2006, 250 pages, ISBN 10: 0-9553672-3-9, ISBN 13: 978-0-9553672-3-6
Available from
Paperback: Diggory Press Publishers (Europe), Lulu (USA)
'Crushed is one of the funniest books, if not the funniest, I have ever read,' Brett Nicholas Moore, author of Tales of Brother Goose.
'Crushed was such a good book. I absolutely want all my friends to read it, and I know they'll go crazy for it.' Reviewed by Sarah Wilborn (age 12) on Reader Views Kids.
.Frantic
Nostalgic Early '70's
Frantic is a fast moving stream of consciousness, which reads like acid on steroids. Seventies survivors will wistfully confirm the authenticity of this frantic 'reportage', if they have any brain-cells left that is. Their children should also be fascinated by this dis-inhibited period of history, just to see why their hippy-hearted parents are still stuck in their flower-power time warp.
Seventies survivor Frances Lynn ruthlessly chronicles the psychotic highs and lows of Alice, a young English girl who escapes London at the tail end of the Sixties for a sojourn in San Francisco. She quickly discovers that the psychedelic world of tie-dye and joss sticks belongs to the previous decade when she becomes involved with a glitter daubed, sprawling theatre group, leftovers from the insular Haight-Ashbury crowd. Alice gets sucked in beyond her head, but just when the crazy theatre group's popularity overdoses, she goes over the top and is shipped back to London. By now, the early Seventies are in full decay, as is Alice. She continues her downward slide by falling in obsession with a fragmented member of the Art World. Their exhausting fling, fuelled by a cocktail of opiates is interrupted by repetitive bouts of insanity, like a San Francisco acid flashback. No holds are barred in this frantic saga of drug-fractured psyches - and it's hard to guess who will stagger on into the eighties.
Published by
Eiworth Publishing
October 2006, 264 pages, ISBN-10: 0-9553672-2-0, ISBN-13: 978-0-9553672-2-9
Available from
Paperback: Diggory Press Publishers (Europe), Lulu (USA)
'This book will entertain you simply because it's such a spirited and hilarious ride,'
Brett Nicholas Moore, author of Tales of Brother Goose.
