Exclusively for members of ReadItSwapIt, Linda Gillard , author of Emotional Geology , A LIfetime Burning and Star Gazing , has very kindly agreed to answer questions about her books and her life as a writer on this thread. Unlike previous author chats we've had, there is no set time for this one...

Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she...