Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Christine Marion Fraser (24 March 1938 22 November 2002) was a Scottish author of popular fiction.She was born in Govan, Glasgow, and was raised in a tenement, the eighth child of a shipyard worker and his wife. As a child, she developed a calcium condition and was left wheelchair bound for life.Fraser was best known for her four continuing family sagas, all of them set in Scotland. Her books sold over three and a half million copies, mostly in her native Scotland but also across the English-speaking world, Her first novel Rhanna was published in 1978 and was followed by seven sequels. The Rhanna series detailed the lives of the residents of a small fictitious Hebridean island of the same name.