Elisabeth Gifford studied French literature and world religons at Leeds University. She has published poems in Cinnamon Press and The Oxford Magazine and a story in Riptide. She has written articles for The Times and The Independent. She has recently completed THE HOUSE OF HOPE, a biography of Dr Joyce Hill who opened a rescue centre for abandoned babies in China, published by Monarch Press and shortly to be translated into Chinese. She has a Diploma in Creative Writing from Oxford OUDCE and a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the course led by Sir Andrew Motion at Royal Holloway College. She is married with three children.

Books by Elisabeth Gifford

The Sea House

by Elisabeth Gifford - Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Suspense

Alexander Ferguson takes up his new parish, a poor. He hopes to uncover the truth behind the legend of the selkies --- mermaids or seal people who have been sighted off the north of Scotland for centuries. It will be more than a century before the Sea House reluctantly gives up its secrets. Ruth and Michael buy the grand building. Their dreams are marred by a shocking discovery. The tiny bones of a baby are buried beneath the house; the child's fragile legs are fused together --- a mermaid child.