Haunting Grace (7 page)

Are today’s fantasy writers tapping into public demand or something more significant?

Consider Diana Gabaldon’s stories and Claire’s journey through time. So far-fetched? Perhaps not!

For centuries the people of Scotland have believed in the magic of the highlands. The Irish believe in fairies and banshees and the Zulu’s in the tokoloshe. These beliefs are based on myth- and myth is based on legend, derived from tales.

What is to say that these tales have no factual basis?

Some would argue that there is no scientific evidence to confirm the existence of magic. Well here we run into the conundrum.

If scientific invention has its origins in the minds of creative dreamers, then the future can only be seen as today’s fantasy.

Perhaps it is worth considering that today’s fantasy may well become tomorrow’s reality.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Elizabeth Marshall is the writing alter ego of a lady born and brought up in a small village in rural South Africa surrounded by a large Scottish farming family.

She has worked at the Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School in England, Nottingham Social Services in England and is currently the Director of an IT Project Management Consultancy.

Elizabeth lives in a 16th Century farmhouse on a sporting estate in the Scottish Borders with her husband, five children and eight chickens and spends her spare time with her head in a book or her fingers on the keyboard writing one.

Elizabeth Marshall has also written the book
‘When Fate Dictates’ and is a regular contributor on
www.goodreads.com/author/show/5051445.Elizabeth_Marshall
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Read more about Elizabeth Marshall and her work
on her website
www.elizabethmarshallwrites.com