About Lilian

Lilian Nattel is the author of The River Midnight and The Singing Fire. One way of  describing these books is to say that they are about redemption. The River Midnight tells the story of a midwife and her friends, “the wild creatures,” in a 19th c. shtetl. The Singing Fire takes place in fin de siecle London, where two women, an adoptive mom and the bio mother, build new lives out of the ashes of their secrets.

“…boisterous, tangled with secrets, and startlingly generous…with lush, scrupulous detail and an unerring eye for the tension between self-interest and benevolence.” (Ben Guterson, Amazon.com)

“From time to time, all too rarely, there comes a novel that so exceeds my expectations of mere excellence that I am tossed into the experience of magic.” (Michael Pakenham: The Baltimore Sun)

“I must confess, I wept unabashedly more than once as I raced through this fine novel.” (Elaine Kalman Naves, The Globe and Mail)

“…a historian’s eye for detail and language, a storyteller’s mastery of rhythm and suspense, a modern woman’s sympathic understanding for those who’ve preceded her.” (Nancy Wigston, The Toronto Star)

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Lilian is also the mom of two amazing daughters and the spouse of a more than decent guy. While writing, she has learned to skate, courtesy of her daughters, swim, knit and crochet. She is not the fastest skater or swimmer or knitter, but she has endurance. This is true of her writing. She has never knitted according to a pattern, but has designed her own, for better or worse. This is also true of her books.