Audrey Howard

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Title: Beyond The Shining Water: Description:
SET AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE BUSTLING PORT, THE TEEMING SLUMS AND THE HOMELY STREETS OF 19th CENTURY LIVERPOOL, AUDREY HOWARD’S ENTHRALLING NEW NOVEL IS A STORY OF AN INNOCENT GIRL’S JOURNEY FROM RICHES TO RAGS – AND TO A NEW LIFE BEYOND. LILY ELLIOTT IS NOT SO MUCH SPOILT AS LOVED –A LITTLE GIRL FOR WHOM NOTHING IS TOO GOOD, PETTED AND INDULGED BY HER ADORED MA AND PA, DREAMING OF THE DAY WHEN SHE WILL BE THE CAPTAIN OF PA’S SHIP. THE LILY-JANE OF LIVERPOOL. UNTIL THE DAY WHEN THE NEWS COMES THAT RICHARD ELLIOTT IS DEAD. AS HER MOTHER SINKS INTO A DREAM-WORLD AND THE MONEY WHICH HAD ALWAYS SEEMED SUFFICIENT TURNS OUT TO HAVE BEEN MOSTLY DEBTS, LILY WATCHES, BEWILDERED, AS HER SAFE, HAPPY WORLD COMES APART. IN THE END ONLY THEIR LOYAL HOUSEKEEPER MRS QUINN STANDS BETWEEN THE ELLIOTT WOMEN AND DESTITUTION IS NOT FAR OFF. THEN TWO RESCUERS APPEAR. ONE IS THE MOST UNLIKELY SAVIOUR: LIAM O’CONNOR, A POOR SEAMAN WHO SELFLESSLY BEFRIENDS THE UNHAPPY LITTLE GIRL. THE OTHER IS JOSHUA CROWTHER, THE WEALTHY OWNER OF OAKWOOD PLACE, A GRAND COUNTRY MANSION WHERE THE DESPERATE WOMEN FINALLY FIND REFUGE. BUT JOSUA CROWTHER IS NOT WHAT HE SEEMS. BY COMING TO OAKWOOD PLACE, LILY AND HER MOTHER HAVE PLACED THEMSELVES IN TERRIBLE DANGER. BY TURNS WILFUL AND ENCHANTING, LILY ELLIOTT IS AUDREY HOWARD’S MOST ENGAGING HEROINE, AND HER STORY IS ONE OF AUDREY HOWARD’S MOST UNFORGETTABLE.

Title: Angel Meadow: Description:
Manchesters mean streets are the setting for the courageous young girl who rises above terrable adversity to make a new life for herself and her family.

Title: Echo Of Another Time: Description:
Celie Marlow first begins working in the Latimers' Kitchen when she is only 10, learing her art from kindly Mrs Harper. By the age of 18, she ahs become a talented cook. Celie knnows her place, and longs to run a kitchen as skilfully as her mentor. Until she falls in love with the wrong man: Richard Latimer, eldest son of the house. And all their lives change with a frightening swiftness. Driven from her home, Celie finds unexpected success in a new venture with Mrs Harper - then looses everything once more. Throw onto the streets of Liverpool, penniless and desperate, she will have to find her own way.

Title: Annie's Girl: Description:
Romance

Title: Not A Bird Will Sing: Description:
Romance

Title: Ambitions: Description:
Two young girls, one from the Merseyside slums and the other the daughter of Liverpool's wealthiest shipping magnate, forge an unlikely friendship which bonds them for ever when they find themselves on the streets without a penny to their names. By the author of "A World of Difference".

Title: Between Friends: Description:
This story is about people who are brought together by friendship, torn apart by love...Meg Hughes, Tom Fraser and Martin Hunter were friends who had grown up together in the grinding poverty of a Liverpool orphanage. Their prospects looked bleak until the friends were sent to help out at Hemingway Shipping Line's emigrant lodging house. Then their youthful high spirits blossomed into their plans for the future. But the First World War brought an end to those plans, and threatened to separate them. As time passes, Meg grows more and more beautiful, and the love the two men feel for her becomes passionately possessive. Meg, in different ways, is in love with both Tom and Martin...and is to bear a child by one of them. Grief and suffering, as well as happiness and hope, must all play their part before the childhood friends' deep and complex relationships are finally and tragically resolved.

Title: Shining Threads (coronet Books): Description:
When beautiful Tessa Harrison and her twin cousins take over their parents' Lancashire cotton mill, their luxurious upbringing has left them unprepared for their new responsibilities. For Tessa, there is an added but forbidden attraction at the mill. Foreman Will Broadbent, with his genuine understanding of the business and its workers, could not be more different from the dashing cousins. Yet, like the twins, he is hopelessly in love with this untameable girl. Their love for Tessa will lead one to death, one to the arms of another woman, a third too faint-hearted to take up his inheritance. And Tessa, the girl who could choose any man she wanted, is forced to shoulder more burdens than she could have imagined before she can be united with the one man she truly needs. About the Author Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981 she wrote the first of her novels when she was out of work and living in Australia. There are now more than twenty, and her fourth, The Juniper Bush, won the Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1988. She now divides her time between her childhood home, St Anne's on Sea, Lancashire, and a home in the Yorkshire Dales.

Title: A Place Called Hope: Description:
To Sir Robert Blenkinsopp, his frail, exquisite wife Amy is just another possession - to be used, misused or discarded like anything else at Newton Law, his grand estate on Northumberland's wild moore. The gamekeeper they call Duffy thinks he has never seen anything quite so brave as Amy Blenkinsopp as she faces up to her husband - and is overjoyed when the brute is found unconscious at the bottom of his own staircase, deprived of the power of speech and movement. With the help of Sir Robert's servants and the increasingly devoted Duffy, she makes the estate not only happier but richer as well. But Sir Robert Blenkinsopp is not dead. Imprisoned in the wreck of his body, his only companion a loathesome servant, he is plotting a vicious revenge on Amy, on her children, and on the man who has come to love her. About the Author Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981, while living in Australia, she wrote the first of her bestselling novels. She lives in St Anne's on Sea, her childhood home.

Title: A Day Will Come: Description:
Set in Lancashire in the 19th century, this is the story of a woman whose life becomes a search for revenge against the rich landowner who helped ruin her childhood. The author also wrote "The Skylark's Song", "The Morning Tide", "The Juniper Bush", "The Mallow Years" and "Shining Threads". About the Author Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981, while living in Australia, she wrote the first of her bestselling novels. She lives in St Anne's on Sea, her childhood home.

Title: Promises Lost And The Shadowed Hills: Description:
Promises Lost - After navvy Jack Andrews rescues wealthy Sara Hamilton from an attacker, he nearly pays for it with his life. As Sara nurses him back to health, the two fall in love, but Sara's sister Alice, determined to part them, moves the family to Liverpool. But one day Jack re-enters their lives. The Shadowed Hills - Wealthy Katy Andrews has never been thwarted or curbed in her life. When she sets her cap at Jamie Hutchinson, she expects him to love her in return - but he does not. Jamie loves Katy's gentle cousin Chole. Driven by grief and horror, Katy turns to the most dangerous man she could possibly find.

Title: Woman From Browhead, The: Description:
Annie Abbott returns to Bowhead, the beautiful lonely hill farm above Bassenthwaithe lake, with only her pride and her baby daughter to sustain her. Her parents are dead, her old friends dare not be seen with an unmarried mother and the other farmers will not help thye woman who presumes to buy sheep and raise crops without a husband at her side. Except for one man. Reed McCauly. Secretly he helps her in anyway he can because Reid is married to another woman.

Title: A Place Called Hope: Description:
Audrey Howard's new novel is set on Northumberland's wild moors. To Sir Robert Blenkinsopp, his frail, exquisite wife Amy is just another possession - to be used, misused or discarded like anything else at Newton Law, his grand moorland estate. He resolves to tame her or destory her for having the impertinence to leave him. And since her has her adored six-month-old son in his hands, it seems there is nothing that Amy can do except return to his power and suffer the consequences. The gamekeeper they call Duffy has never seen anything quite so brave as Amy as she faces up to her husband - and is overjoyed when the brute is found unconscious at the bottom of his own staircase, deprived of the power of speech and movement. But Sir Robert Blenkinsopp is not dead. Imprisoned in the wreck of his body, his only companion a loathesome servant, he is plotting a vicious revenge on Amy, on her children, and on the man who has come to love her.

Title: A Flower In Season: Description:
Briony Marsden has led a hard life, forced to do the work of a grown man while enduring her drunkard father's taunts and blows. But when he goes too far one day, her fate becomes even worse as she makes her way alone in a heartless world. Not quite alone. She has a friend - Lizzie Jenkins - who will do anything to help Briony re-open Moorend Mill. And Chad Cameron, the richest man in the district, has always admired Briony's spirit and determination. When her fortunes are at their lowest, he falls in love with the elfin waif and decides to make her his wife. But the only way he can win her is by trickery - by betraying her naive trust in the man who came to her rescue when all seemed lost. Can their marriage survive when she discovers his deception? About the Author Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981, while living in Australia, she wrote the first of her bestselling novels. She lives in St Anne's on Sea, her childhood home.. (20010817)

Title: The Skylark's Song: Description:
A portrayal of a girl from the Mersey docks battling to escape the brutal squalor of her background. It follows her from the age of five, through poverty, adoption, betrayal, assault, escape and eventual rescue by a man for ever beyond her reach. By the author of "A World of Difference".

Title: The Shadowed Hills (hodder Summer Reading): Description:
Wealthy Katy Andrews has never been thwarted or curbed in her life. When she sets her cap at Jamie Hutchinson, she expects him to love her in return - but he does not. Jamie loves Katy's gentle cousin Chole. Driven by grief and horror, Katy turns to the most dangerous man she could possibly find. About the Author Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981 she wrote the first of her novels when she was out of work and living in Australia. There are now more than twenty, and her fourth, The Juniper Bush, won the Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1988. She now divides her time between her childhood home, St Anne's on Sea, Lancashire, and a home in the Yorkshire Dales. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Title: Angel Meadow: Description:
Nancy Brody is different from the rest of the folk in Angel Meadow, the appalling slum where her drunken mother Kitty was a prostitute . . . Only nine years old, Nancy decides to save her sisters Mary and Rose from the workhouse. She gets work for them all at the Monarch Cotton Manufacturing Mill - and then sets out to better herself and her sisters. Saving every penny, working every waking hour, Nancy succeeds, becoming a manufacturer herself. But happiness seems as elusive for Nancy as it was when she was a mistreated child. Though he once said he loved her, Mick O’Rourke has become Nancy’s worst enemy, and seems destined to take a terrible revenge on her and her sisters. And Josh Hayes, the man who truly loves Nancy, seems destined to be parted from her.

Title: The Woman From Browhead: Description:
Annie Abbott is the daughter and only child of a poverty-stricken hill farmer and his downtrodden wife, who runs away with a theatrical group at the age of 15. Eventually hearing that her parents have died, Annie returns to the Lakes to claim the farm. But now she has an illegitimate daughter. Only a local landowner comes to help her

Title: When Morning Comes: Description:
Exceptional Reading

Title: The Long Way Home: Description:
with her Mam ill and Pa taking any shift he can in the Liverpool dockyards,Amy Pearson must be stronger than her 10 years to look after her brothers and sisters in their cramped one -up-one down.A resilient young girl.she becomes the mainstay of her family. Then fate cruelly intervrnes in the form of her rich aunt Zillah,who 'buys' Amy and takes her to Manchester.Torn from the family she loves so dearly,and taken under her zealously Methodist aunt's wing her every move is controlled.It is only her uncle Caleb and the Seymours' servants,especially Joe the handsome gardener,who manages to keep Amy's spirit up. Over the years Amy and Joe become closer than friends.But they have more to overcome before there can be a home fro Amy.

Title: Painted Highway: Description:
Vibrant and headstrong, Ally Pearce loves working on the Edith, her family’s narrowboat, proving she’s the equal of any man on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. Betsy, delicate, calculating and sensuously beautiful, wants only to become a ‘lady’ – and will use the most unladylike means to become one. When Dr Tom Hartley enters the sisters' lives after a tragic accident both are attracted to him – but for very different reasons...

Title: A Flower In Season: Description:
Briony Marsden has led a hard life, forced to do the work of a grown man while enduring her drunkard father's taunts and blows. But when he goes too far one day, her fate becomes even worse as she makes her way alone in a heartless world. Not quite alone. She has a friend - Lizzie Jenkins - who will do anything to help Briony re-open Moorend Mill. And Chad Cameron, the richest man in the district, has always admired Briony's spirit and determination. When her fortunes are at their lowest, he falls in love with the elfin waif and decides to make her his wife. But the only way he can win her is by trickery - by betraying her naive trust in the man who came to her rescue when all seemed lost. Can their marriage survive when she discovers his deception? The story of the star-crossed love of Chad Cameron for Briony Marsden is one of the most enthralling Audrey Howard has told.

Title: The Morning Tide: Description:
Its Liverpool, 1921. It was the year lively Kate Fowler rebelled against working in her hated father's chip shop and, with her gentle sister Jenny, left his brutal house forever. For this was the Jazz Age - and Kate and Jenny revelled in their freedom and in dancing until dawn, until romance changed the tempo of their lives. For Kate, it was Charlie, a man as strong and warm-hearted as herself. For Jenny, it was Nils, the Norwegian navigator, who shared a brief, bittersweet affair with her before tragically disappearing from her life. And while Kate and Charlie together face the bad times that are coming, Jenny looks set to repeat the tragic pattern of her mother's life.

Title: The Shadowed Hills: Description:
A sweeping 19th-century saga set in the Peak District, this is the next generation sequel to "Promises Lost". Following the fortunes of the impetuous Kate, the daughter of Sara Hamilton, heartache and tragedy ensue before it all ends well.

Title: Woman From Browhead: And When Morning Comes: Description:
The heroine is Annie Abbott, daughter and only child of a poverty-stricken hill farmer and his downtrodden wife, who runs away with a theatrical group at the age of 15. Eventually hearing that her parents have died, Annie returns to the Lakes to claim the farm. But now she has an illegitimate daughter - and virtually no one will speak to her. Only a local landowner who is engaged to marry another woman, comes to help her.

Title: The Mallow Years (coronet Books): Description:
This is the story of the love between a daughter of a mill-owner and a weaver. Their love develops and has to struggle for fulfilment through times of terrible distress, violence, and passion.

Title: Day Will Come: And Beyond The Shining Water: Description:
Set in Lancashire in the 19th century, this is the story of a woman whose life becomes a search for revenge against the rich landowner who helped ruin her childhood.

Title: Strand Of Dreams: Description:
When mill worker Molly O'Dowd falls in love with factory owner Tim Broadbent, all her dreams seem to come true. Their passionate marriage catapults Molly into a luxurious new world, but tragedy awaits. It's only when she seems to have lost everything that Molly at lasts finds happiness.