Ross-shire author launches wartime secrets book
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A ROSS-SHIRE first-time writer launches her debut novel today (Thursday) at Waterstones in Inverness.
It’s the second big event this week for Jane MacKenzie who invited Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Peter Higgs to come to Plockton earlier this week to talk to Highland Higher Physics pupils.
Jane, who divides her time between Plockton and Collioure in the South of France, met the professor while working in Geneva at CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.
Jane’s career – first as a language teacher – has also taken her to the Gambia and Papua New Guinea.
But it was on returning to the South of France where she had spent a year as a student that Jane began to write her first novel Daughter of Catalonia.
Jane will be reading from the book and signing copies at tonight’s event from 6pm.
Daughter of Catalonia is a story of wartime secrets as heroine Madeline returns to the French village where her resistance hero father died.
• You can read an interview with Jane on this website. Just scroll down and click on What’s On and it’s the lead feature.
