Fiction

Although nothing of hers is contemporary. She wrote a large number of, I guess I could call them interlinked, novels set in a fictionalized part of southwestern (I think) England. The novels range in time from the very end of the Roman occupation up to the 1950's. They weren't written in time-ordered sequence, but someone who is a minor character in one will be the main character of another.

Interestingly enough, her very first novel was about the Donner Party.