south africa Archives - Francesca Cassini

19 Apr 2015

I’m Hunting White Lions

I’m going to hunt me a white lion! I want to capture one. After all they are the most rare and beautiful creatures on the planet. So rare they only arrive here on Earth in times of great ecological crisis, … Continued

14 Mar 2015

A Bit on the Side Needn’t be Naughty

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: Following Your Heart | 4

I was pretty promiscuous in my twenties but have become more prudish as I head towards my sixties so how come I’ve not only flirted with another but have decided to be fully and wildly abandoned and commit to a … Continued

12 Mar 2015

OMG I am off to SA! But which SA?

by Francesca Cassini | posted in: Following Your Heart | 2

I am passionate about South Africa. I’ve been there twice so far. I’m also a story teller. My trilogy (I’m writing the second book now) is connected to the mythology of South Africa. If I wasn’t English I’m sure I … Continued

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros

‘Was the post-break-up adventure I’d embarked upon going to end in the loneliest of deaths in the middle of nowhere? Was my determination finally to live life on my own terms going to kill me as surely as Isadora Duncan’s scarf killed her?’ Sandy Locksmith

Five Bridges, Three Frontiers and 150 Euros Emerging from a fever-induced fantasy of the beginning of the world Sandy faces the shocking reality. She’s held captive by a psychopathic vagrant, imprisoned in a medieval citadel cradled deep within an empty valley in rural France, and being subjected to terrifying sexual assaults. It’s the middle of a freezing December. How did she end up in such a hopeless position and what can it take to transform it? Sandy is certain that somewhere among all the unusual experiences she’s had over the previous month lies the key to her freedom. We journey back with her to the middle of November. In her late forties, post menopausal and childless Sandy has been trying to ‘create her own reality’ for months… The first novel in the Waking The Lions trilogy.