‘Weights and Measures’ (Watermark Press) is an unhurried historical novel that ends as surprisingly for the characters as the reader. It follows an outwardly ordinary family, living in a working-class suburb of Swansea, during the early days of World War II, exploring inner lives of fear, passion, and hope.

Preoccupied with their secrets, they live in almost suspended animation, waiting for an end to the weeks and months of apparent nothing – the so-called ‘phoney war.’ None of them are prepared for the real war when it begins – devastating and senseless, reconfiguring their lives forever. But out of tragedy, there is a speck of hope…

‘Against the epic backdrop of the Second World War, Fraser’s intimate love letter to Swansea bursts with passion, humour, and heart—a sweeping family saga so compelling readers won’t want to put it down.’
Euros Lyn, BAFTA-winning Film and Television Director

About the author…
Jane Fraser lives, works and writes fiction in a house facing the sea in Llangennith in the Gower peninsula. She is the author of the novel, ‘Advent’ (Honno) winner of the Society of Authors’ Paul Torday Memorial Prize (2022), and two collections of short stories: ‘The South Westerlies’ and ‘Connective Tissue’ (SALT).

Her short fiction has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 as part of its Short Works series, she is a former Hay Festival Writer at Work, has an MA (distinction) and PhD in Creative Writing from Swansea University, and is grandmother to Meg, Flo and Alice.

‘Weights and Measures’ (Watermark Press) is her second novel.

www.janefraserwriter.com

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