Just Fancy: A Memoir

After writing about many fictional characters over the years, author Elaine Blick has at last told her own story.

In many ways it has the surprising twists and turns of a plot of one of her novels, and will have readers exclaiming "Just fancy!"

There is the time she fell twelve feet from a tree and got up unscathed; the time she dealt with the unwelcome attentions of a stalker; and more dramatic still, her time in Soviet Russia when she narrowly escaped being held by the KGB.

Her love of adven...