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Books

Books by Frances E. Gilbert

Young Readers

  • Turtle on a Summer’s Day
  • Celeste and Regine in the Rainforest
  • A World of Numbers
  • Goodnight World Outside
  • Elephant Blue
  • Cookie Thief
  • Today the Teacher Changed our Seats
  • To Know the Sea
  • The Man with the Pocketful of Bees
  • The True Story of the Loch Ness Monster
  • Will He Come?

Older Readers

  • Where is She Now?
  • She Should Have Come for Me
  • Village Dream
  • Our Daily Bread

Where is She Now? – Short fiction for adults

Rosemary wants only to feel the calm promised in the hymns of her childhood, she wants to ‘lay down her burden and enter in.’ Cradling her green pocket book wrapped in an old green shawl, she wanders through her daily life with her husband Brian, her traumatized self, and her alter ego, the bossy and competent Anna. Something has happened in the past, centering on her baby, but Rosemary can’t quite remember what it was. And where is the baby now?

As she oscillates between rational and delusional spells she seeks validation and support from the inanimate objects around her, the cups on the shelf, the knobs on the bedposts, the books in the bookcase, and the houses lining the streets. In her conversations with them we see a Rosemary who is not quite as deranged as she seems, and a Brian, not quite as supportive as he would like to have you believe.

The book is set in a fictional amalgam of two small English towns.

Read the review by Nina Sankovitch

Available from Amazon.com