Sara Rath

Seven Years of Grace: the Inspired Mission of Achsa Sprague was published in March 2016 and took years of exhaustive research to compile. I felt strongly that it should be categorized as creative non-fiction (and still do) but it was published by a Historical Society, and they are sticklers for fact! 

 

I'm now delighted to return to contemporary fiction where I can play with stories and makebelieve characters in my head and not be so concerned with the difficult demands of proof, time and place. The Last Resort will feature a few characters from my previous Northwoods novels (including Ginger), and address a topic no one has attempted before.   Read More 

At Home With Terry Jones

3 August, 1983. London -- Grove Park, Camberwell. The last in a line of red brick row houses. Our taxi driver had been disappointed that we were not going to visit John Cleese, “that crazy man." Instead, I was interviewing Terry Jones – who, I assured our driver, was pretty crazy, too. My daughter Laura, then 19, was mortified to be seen as tagging along but, like her brother and mother, was a devoted fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus, first introduced to American television in 1974. We'd been touring France and the UK for nearly a month. Read More