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Just the Echo of a Sigh" and "Faint Harmony" concentrate on the life and career of famous British tenor, Malcolm Craig and his tumultuous private life. He marries three times, but none of his marriages work out well. Even his third "perfect" marriage to soprano Marina Dunbar who becomes his singing partner, has many problems. The four novels in the Malcolm Craig series are a mixture of Roman à clef, and biographical-autobiographical novel, in...

Love Set to Music" and "A Song for You and Me", the last two novels in the Malcolm Craig series are set in South Africa from 1956 to 1966. Malcolm Craig and Marina Dunbar settle in the country after problems with the Inland Revenue in the United Kingdom. They open a studio in Johannesburg and start teaching in addition to their theatre work. Despite the "sweethearts of song" image of their marriage, their relationship remains stormy but matter...

This is the second novel in the Malcolm Craig series. It covers the period from the beginning of World War Two until 1956 when Malcolm Craig and his wife, Marina Dunbar have no option but to leave the United Kingdom for South Africa. Fiona Compton is putting finishing touches to the third novel in the Malcolm Craig series and hopes to publish it by the end of 2015.

Derek Bailey is one of Britain's finest tenors. He never forgets Elspeth McPhail, the young Scottish house-keeper who worked for him when he was starting his career in the thirties. Although he becomes famous and successful, his personal life is far from fulfilling. This novel covers Derek's professional and personal life over a span of forty years including his two unsatisfactory marriages and his five-year affair with a young woman forty yea...

This is the fourth and final novel in the Malcolm Craig series. The stormy marriage of Malcolm Craig and his wife, Marina Dunbar eventually reaches the point of no return. They have to decide whether to remain married for the sake of their "sweethearts of song" image in the eyes of the public, or go their separate ways at last. In 1965 Kate Kyle, the young woman who is the object of Malcolm's attentions, is so distressed and hurt at the course...

This is the third novel in the Malcolm Craig series. Because of tax problems with the United Kingdom Inland Revenue, famous tenor, Malcolm Craig and his wife, Marina Dunbar decide to emigrate to South Africa in 1956. This novel covers the first seven years of their lives in South Africa. Although they are still performing they find that they have to teach singing to make ends meet. Their marriage is still as tempestuous as ever and they are on...