Talk
Author Talk: Frances Fyfield
27 Aug 2016
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
£4
Address
- Danes Terrace
- Lincoln
- LN2 1LP
- United Kingdom
Tied in with our 'A Question of Guilt: A Crime Writer's Collection' Exhibition, crime writer Frances Fyfield will talk about her most recent novel.
About
Venue- The Collection
Ticket Price- £4 (Available at Lindum Books & The Collection)
Date- Saturday 27 August
Time- 7.00 pm (The museum will be open from 6 pm for a private few of 'A Question of Guilt' before the talk commences)
Frances Fyfield is the pseudonym of Frances Hegarty, a lawyer and crime-writer. Born and brought up in Derbyshire, Hegarty was mostly educated in convent schools before reading English at Newcastle University. After graduating, she took a course in criminal law. She worked initially for the Metropolitan Police and later the Crown Prosecution Service. She claims "After a long diet of criminal law, including dangerous dogs, rape, mayhem and much, much murder, the indigestion of pity and fury provoked me to write. I wanted to write romance, but the domestically macabre always got in the way.
She has won several awards, including the Crime Writers' Association Duncan Lawrie Dagger for Blood From Stone in 2008 and the Silver Dagger for Deep Sleep. In addition, her novel, Safer than Houses was nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger in 2006. She also writes psychological thrillers under the name of Frances Hegarty, among them, The Playroom, Half Light and Let's Dance, which was published in 1995.
Her novels have been translated into 14 languages. Several have been adapted for television. Fyfield's Helen West series has twice been adapted for television. Juliet Stevenson played Helen West in Trial by Fire (1999) and Amanda Burton later took on the role in a successful British television series in 2002.
