She brings life to Morocco of the 17th century and I do mean that literally. The scale is ambitious and knowing the bio of the author, one shouldn’t expect anything less. The Sultan’s Wife is by no means an easy tale. Jane Johnson’s The Sultan's Wife is a sweeping and phenomenal tale of love in the historical era of 17th century Morocco.Īlmost a year back, I read The Sea Gate by the same author and was enthralled by it so much that I jumped when offered a chance to read this wonderful book. She still works, remotely, as Fiction Publishing Director for HarperCollins.
In October she married her own 'Berber pirate' and now they split their time between Cornwall and a village in the Anti-Atlas Mountains. She returned home, gave up her office job in London, sold her flat and shipped the contents to Morocco. In 2005 she was in Morocco researching the story of a distant family member who was abducted from a Cornish church in 1625 by Barbary pirates and sold into slavery in North Africa (which formed the basis for Crossed Bones / The Tenth Gift), when a near-fatal climbing incident caused her to rethink her future. She has also written several books for children. Under the pseudonym of Jude Fisher she wrote three bestselling Visual Companions to the films. She was responsible for publishing the works of J R R Tolkien during the 1980s and 1990s and worked on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movie trilogy, spending many months in New Zealand with cast and crew. Jane Johnson is from Cornwall and has worked in the book industry for 20 years, as a bookseller, publisher and writer.
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