Location: United States
Member Since:
March 22, 2019
Rita Baker
Biography
I've been writing since the age of five when I discovered the magic of words. At first, fairy tales, and as I grew so my stories grew with me. Then came poetry. But it was when my children left home and I found time to write my first novel that I felt complete
I have been greatly influenced by biographical novels and nonfiction works such as The Conspiracy of Fools. I am also a fan of Somerset Maugham and John Grisham--anything that involves lawyers and complex characters. My marriage to a British lawyer also helped me develop a deep insight into the legal profession. My second book 'of breeding and birth' written for my husband, is a novel about lawyers, the good, the bad, the holy and not so holy. And I enjoyed every minute writing it.
A lawyer is always lurking somewhere in my books. I can never escape them. I don't want to. They have been an integral part of my life--a life filled with everything you could hope for. And mostly love which my book Born Of Love bears out.
As far back as I can remember, there was a nagging that wouldn't let go of me and from the very first book, at the end of the very first page, the nagging left and never returned.
We don't always discover who we are, or who we are meant to be. But when we do, there is no feeling in the world, except perhaps love, that can transport us into the realm of the immortals, to live our lives in the splendour of unforgettable moments of certainty of who we are and what we are put on earth for into which my writing delves. As Alexander Pope said -- Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man. ---And thus it is.
Love, hope, passion. Be it for another, be it for God, what would we do, what would we be without it--nothing, and how much less could we be!
Now I am without my husband, but not his memory. That lives on in all my novels. But that is another story, and one I hope you will discover between the pages of this book.
Live...cast doubt aside, evil and uncertainty. And who knows what we may find within ourselves!
I have been greatly influenced by biographical novels and nonfiction works such as The Conspiracy of Fools. I am also a fan of Somerset Maugham and John Grisham--anything that involves lawyers and complex characters. My marriage to a British lawyer also helped me develop a deep insight into the legal profession. My second book 'of breeding and birth' written for my husband, is a novel about lawyers, the good, the bad, the holy and not so holy. And I enjoyed every minute writing it.
A lawyer is always lurking somewhere in my books. I can never escape them. I don't want to. They have been an integral part of my life--a life filled with everything you could hope for. And mostly love which my book Born Of Love bears out.
As far back as I can remember, there was a nagging that wouldn't let go of me and from the very first book, at the end of the very first page, the nagging left and never returned.
We don't always discover who we are, or who we are meant to be. But when we do, there is no feeling in the world, except perhaps love, that can transport us into the realm of the immortals, to live our lives in the splendour of unforgettable moments of certainty of who we are and what we are put on earth for into which my writing delves. As Alexander Pope said -- Know then thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man. ---And thus it is.
Love, hope, passion. Be it for another, be it for God, what would we do, what would we be without it--nothing, and how much less could we be!
Now I am without my husband, but not his memory. That lives on in all my novels. But that is another story, and one I hope you will discover between the pages of this book.
Live...cast doubt aside, evil and uncertainty. And who knows what we may find within ourselves!
Where to find Rita Baker online
Where to buy in print
Books
On Love
by Rita Baker
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 8,420.
Language:
English.
Published: November 7, 2022
by
Adelaide Books Publishers.
Categories:
Poetry » Contemporary Poetry, Poetry » Canadian Poetry
I am a novelist, creating stories out of thin air, yet not thin air, since each story is a part of my life, and a part of me has been aching to create since I first learned the wonder of words and what they could achieve on a sheet of paper.
My Dear Cousin Sadie
by Rita Baker
Price:
$9.77 USD.
Words: 125,040.
Language:
English.
Published: January 9, 2020
by
Adelaide Books Publishers.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Romance » General
"MY DEAR COUSIN SADIE is a tale, often parallel with my own life, of heartache, hostility, and despair, while, at the same time, filled with love and hope." - Author
Victim of Circumstances
by Rita Baker & Margot Swicarcik
Price:
$7.99 USD.
Words: 49,020.
Language:
English.
Published: December 30, 2019
by
Adelaide Books Publishers.
Categories:
Nonfiction » Biography » Autobiographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction » Biography » Personal memoir
It is the story of how she, Margot Davidowitch lived through personal tragedy in Hitler’s Germany, and then in Poland and communist Russia, before, during and after W.W. II, coming out of that dark period, a complete person; a testament to that inner strength that remains with her to this day.
Of Breeding and Birth
by Rita Baker
Price:
$9.77 USD.
Words: 125,070.
Language:
English.
Published: July 10, 2019
by
Adelaide Books Publishers.
Categories:
Fiction » Literature » Literary, Fiction » Romance » Contemporary
Young Archie Bingham, the son of Sir Archibald Bingham, an eminent British barrister, discovers that his father is keeping a mistress and he’s horrified. Bingham’s life soon becomes motivated by a passion for revenge against his father, which leads to his own downfall. His destructive behavior necessitates him emigrating from England, where he practiced law, to America.
Born of Love
by Rita Baker
Price:
$9.77 USD.
Words: 114,460.
Language:
English.
Published: March 22, 2019
by
Adelaide Books Publishers.
Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Contemporary, Fiction » Romance » General
In the early 1900s, in Europe, there is scorn and stigma when young lovers marry out of their religion. Tova is a child of such love. At the tender age of thirteen, when she discovers she is Jewish on her mother’s side, Tova is devastated.