Chasing Angels
by Sally Zigmond

Sally Zigmond's roots are in Leicestershire but she is now firmly planted in North Yorkshire. After university, she worked in a bookshop and then as a translator for Interpol. She wrote her first novel when she was ten and plenty of dubious poetry in her teens. She never quite abandoned her literary dreams and began writing seriously again about ten years ago since when she has won many prizes for her short stories which have been widely published. Now, their two sons having flown the nest, she and her husband are refurbishing an old chapel in the heart of the North York Moors. Sally was the outright winner of the Biscuit International Short Fiction Prize, 2005.



On September 4th 1838, Henriette d'Angeville, at 44yrs old stood on the summit of Mont Blanc. She was not the first woman to do so but the fact that an aristocrat, whose grandfather had been guillotined and father imprisoned during the French Revolution, should even contemplate it in an age when women did not do such things and mountaineering for men was still in its infancy is incredible. So what influences shaped her decision? Where did her hardiness come from? Was she the self-seeking, unloved spinster as many commentators have claimed? Who exactly was Henriette d'Angeville? Chasing Angels blends fact with fiction to help put flesh on the bones of this remarkable woman.

£7.99
ISBN.10 1-903914-29-9
ISBN.13 978-1-903914-29-8
Price includes free condensed version on audio CD