Suzanne Redfearn is the award-winning author of three novels: Hush Little Baby, No Ordinary Life, and In An Instant. Born and raised on the east coast, Redfearn moved to California when she was fifteen. She currently lives in Laguna Beach with her husband where they own two restaurants: Lumberyard and Slice Pizza & Beer.In addition to being an author, Redfearn is an architect specializing in residential and commercial design.
At CrimeReads, Redfearn tagged "six current novels in which architecture plays an important role," including:
Christina Baker Kline, A Piece of the WorldRead about another entry on the list.
This wonderful ekphrastic work of fiction is an exploration into the life and times of the woman in the foreground of Andrew Wyeth’shaunting painting Christina’s World. Crippled at a young age by a neuromuscular disease, Christina Olson can no longer walk. She gets around by pulling herself along the ground in and around the family’s farmhouse near Rockland, Maine. Author Christina Baker Kline describes the farmhouse and Andrew Wyeth’s view of it in the third paragraph: “He did get one thing right: Sometimes a sanctuary, sometimes a prison, that house on the hill has always been my home. I’ve spent my life yearning toward it, wanting to escape it, paralyzed by its hold on me.” Much of the novel revolves around the limited world of this remarkable woman’s life.
--Marshal Zeringue
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