Lake of Echoes
About this ebook
1969. As France seethes in the wake of social unrest, eight-year-old Juliette is caught up in the turmoil of her parents’ fragmenting marriage.
Unable to bear another argument, she flees her home.
Neighbours joining the search for Juliette are stunned that such a harrowing thing could happen in their tranquil lakeside village.
But this is nothing compared to her mother, Lea’s torment, imagining what has befallen her daughter.
Léa, though, must remain strong to run her auberge and as the seasons pass with no news from the gendarmes, she is forced to accept she may never know her daughter’s fate.
Despite the villagers’ scepticism, Léa’s only hope remains with a clairvoyant who believes Juliette is alive.
But will mother and daughter ever be reunited?
Steeped in centuries-old tradition, against an enchanting French countryside backdrop, Lake of Echoes will delight your senses and captivate your heart.
Compelling blend of historical fiction, mystery and women’s fiction for Kelly Rimmer and Kristin Hannah fans.
“A testament to female resilience, depth and strength, this is a universal story set in a changing world.” JJ Marsh, author of The Beatrice Stubbs Series.
About the author
Liza grew up in Wollongong, Australia where she worked as a general nurse and a midwife. When she met her French husband on a Bangkok bus, she moved to France, where she has been living for twenty-nine years, working as a French-English medical translator, and as a novelist.
After completing a creative writing course sixteen years ago, several of her short stories won awards, notably the Writers Bureau, 2004, and others have been published widely in anthologies and small press magazines. Her articles on French culture are published in international magazines such as France Magazine, France Today and The Good Life France.
She is the author of the French historical The Bone Angel series. Three French village midwife-healers. Three stories spanning six hundred years. Three women linked by an ancient bone talisman and bonded by living through turbulent times –– the Black Death, the French Revolution, the WWII Nazi Occupation.
The first in the series, Spirit of Lost Angels won the EFestival of Words 2013, Historical Fiction category. It was Shortlisted in the Writing Magazine Self-Publishing Awards, 2013, and was featured in “Off the Beaten Path” recommendations, Historical Novel Society Conference, 2013.
The second novel, Wolfsangel, was shortlisted in the 2019 Exeter Novel Prize: http://www.
The third, Blood Rose Angel, was longlisted in the 2015Mslexia Novel Competition.
The first novel in her Australian family drama series, The Silent Kookaburra is set in 1970s Australia.
The second edition of the second novel, The Swooping Magpie, was published in December, 2020.
The third, The Lost Blackbird, was published in August, 2020.
Lake of Echoes is the first in her new French historical series, Sainte-Marie-du-Lac, and was published in June 2022.
