Sylvia Fraser Books In Order

Novels

  1. Pandora (1972)
  2. The Candy Factory (1975)
  3. A Casual Affair (1978)
  4. The Emperor’s Virgin (1980)
  5. Berlin Solstice (1984)
  6. Playing for Keeps (1990)
  7. The Ancestral Suitcase (1996)

Picture Books

  1. Tom and Francine (1998)

Non fiction

  1. My Father’s House (1987)
  2. The Book Of Strange (1993)
  3. The Quest for the Fourth Monkey (1994)
  4. The Rope in the Water (2001)
  5. The Green Labyrinth (2003)
  6. Maggie and the Pedophiles (2011)
  7. Caged (2012)
  8. Psychic Secrets (2012)
  9. Dear Sexual Abuse Survivor (2013)
  10. Ayahuasca (2020)

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Sylvia Fraser Books Overview

Tom and Francine

Francine, a snooty, uptown cat, spurns the advances of Tom, a penniless country cat, until he saves her from a vicious pit bull.

My Father’s House

A chilling recollection of a child’s experience with incest and an encouraging story of a woman’s healing and forgiveness.

The Rope in the Water

‘At Kovalam beach on India’s southwestern shore I plunge into the Arabian Sea, the same soft temperature as the air…
Looking shoreward, I see lifeguards gesturing. Since I’m much further than I imagined, I begin a determined swim toward them…
The lifeguards continue to blast and gesture, but I’m powerless against the riptide irresistibly sweeping me out to sea. Though my situation appears hopeless, I’m about to undergo the most remarkable and mysterious event of my life…
.’ So begins ‘The Rope in the Water‘, the story of Sylvia Fraser’s three month pilgrimage to India in search of ‘something larger than myself, something deeper, something more.’ Travelling 12,000 kilometers across deserts and through jungles, Fraser visits sacred sites such as the twilight city of Varanasi on the Ganges, dense with the smoke of hundreds of funeral pyres; north to the glittering Golden Temple of the Sikhs; up Mount Abu where she stays with a Hindu sect called the Brahma Kumaris; south to a Buddhist retreat where she meditates eleven hours a day for ten days while observing a vow of silence; and to the Kovalam beach where her life is saved by a miracle. Fraser brings alive the sense luscious tapestry of India, from its fluorescent seas of turbans and flowing robes, to the cerulean alleyways and the hot crush of urban bazaars, while exploring Eastern concepts such as ‘You create your own future’ and ‘Change yourself and you change everything.’ Humourous and intelligent, ‘The Rope in the Water‘ is an uplifting yet earthbound literary odyssey for all those interested in the physical and philosophical worlds beyond their own.

The Green Labyrinth

In the critically acclaimed ‘The Rope in the Water’, Sylvia Fraser described her three month pilgrimage to India in search of ‘something larger than myself, something deeper, something more.’ In ‘The Green Labyrinth‘, Fraser continues her journey, this time deep into the jungle of the Amazon in the company of shamans, traditional spiritualists practicing ancient rituals. At the heart of Fraser’s quest lies the mind expanding drug ‘ayahuasca’, a gateway to worlds beyond her own, to a better understanding of the mysteries of existence. Fraser takes us to shamanic sanctuaries that hover at the edge of our modern world, providing a portal to the unknown. Along the way she introduces us to a diverse group of pilgrims searching for their own answers with the help of shamans and ayahuasca. Through meaningful visions and with spiritual guidance, Fraser and her fellow travellers acquire insight into their emotional and psychic lives, and discover that many of the answers they are searching for lie within themselves.

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