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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1990
  • Latest Book:
    July 2020
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Book List in Order: 13 titles






  • An “eerie, elliptical masterpiece set in a South African boarding school in the early 1960s. . . . First-rate psychological suspense . . . played out flawlessly” (Kirkus Reviews). The members of an elite girls swim t...





  • Sheila Kohler ranges from a boarding school in South Africa where an aging schoolmistress tries to seduce a preadolescent girl to a remote American mental hospital visited by an idealistic young psychiatrist....



  • In Sheila Kohler's riveting new novel, Kate returns from Paris to her home in South Africa for the funeral of her sister, Marion, who was killed in a car accident that left her husband Louis (the driver) in intensive care. Amid loving reminiscences a...



  • Sheila Kohler is on tour to promote the paperback reprints of Crossways and The Perfect Place. A wholly entrancing narrative. . . . Kohler has a fine ear for truth and untruth and the musical possibilities of their interplay.-J.M. Coetzee, Nobel Priz...



  • Acclaimed author Sheila Kohler's sweeping historical novel, Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness, is based on the life of Lucy Dillon, an eighteenth-century French aristocrat. Wrenched from the court of Marie Antoinette by the Reign of Terror, the...



  • A beautifully imagined tale of the Bronte sisters and the writing of Jane Eyre The year is 1846. In a cold parsonage on the gloomy Yorkshire moors, a family seems cursed with disaster. A mother and two children dead. A father sick, without fortune...






  • The compelling story of a forbidden marriage, a baby lost, and a love triangle gone horribly wrong, Love Child centers on Bill, a South African woman whose life has been defined by the apartheid-era, class-riven society in which she lives. Under pres...




  • An award-winning author reimagines one of Freud’s most famous and controversial cases Acclaimed for her spare prose and exceptional psychological insights in her novels Becoming Jane Eyre and Love Child, Sheila Kohler’s latest is inspired by S...



  • The lies between a husband and wife are revealed, unraveling their family in this thrilling novel that moves between the French Riviera, Switzerland, and AmagansettWhen Michel, a Swiss banker, discovers his wife Alice's betrayal he turns for help to ...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Sheila Kohler has published 13 books.

Sheila Kohler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Open Secrets, was published in July 2020.

The first book by Sheila Kohler, Miracles in America, was published in May 1990.

No. Sheila Kohler does not write books in series.