Ambition, inheritance and long family histories give Catherine Gaskin’s novels their broad, international scale. Sara Dane, her best-known novel, follows a transported woman in early colonial Australia who rises from convict status into business and property, loosely drawing on the life of Mary Reibey. A Falcon for a Queen moves to the Scottish Highlands through a woman investigating family history, while The Summer of the Spanish Woman and The Lynmara Legacy use long family stories, travel and inherited secrets. Gaskin’s novels are expansive, accessible and strongly plot-led, often spanning years rather than concentrating on one courtship. The most useful neighbouring categories are family sagas, historical women’s fiction and mid-century romantic drama, particularly for readers of Susan Howatch and older international sagas. Read more Less
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