![]() The only person willing to come and help was Father Mansart, the local priest. She begins by describing Erik's birth, and how the servants ran away at the sight of the "creature". ![]() In this moving part of the story she describes how her fairy-tale dream of how life would be was shattered, and how she eventually grew to tolerate her son. This inspired her to write another historical novel based on the life of the Phantom of the Opera - the result was the widely acclaimed Phantom, which is a phavourite among Phans across the globe. Hoping to find out more about the Phantom, she read the original novel by Gaston Leroux (also summaried/reviewed at this site), but found that it posed more questions than she hoped it would answer. In 1987 she went to see the ALW musical with the original cast starring Michael Crawford, and she was intrigued by the story. Susan Kay worked as a teacher in the UK at a primary school before leaving to bring up a family, and since then she has written several historical novels, including Legacy, based on the life of the Tudor queen Elizabeth I, for which Kay one numerous awards. ![]()
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