Lyn Andrews
BOOKS BY THIS AUTHOR
- Title: On A Wing And A Prayer
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Mary wants her girls to have what she never had - the security and love her hard-drinking Jack denied her. But Daisy, her daughter, falls pregnant by rough Sam O'Grady and sinks into bitter poverty. As war looms her sister Nell despairs of ever finding love. 
- Title: When Daylight Comes
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Jessica Brennan is just nineteen years old when her world falls apart. Losing her father at sea was devasting enough, but the death of her mother is almost too much to bear. The grieving has barely begun when Jess learns that the family business is in ruins, but there are further blows to come. Jess's brother Patrick is determined to gamble with what little they have left .......
Suddenly a young woman who has known only comfort and security finds herself alone and friendless. But Jess is a fighter and in her darkest hour she finds the strength she needs to start again. From buying and selling dyed feathers as hat trimmings, Jess gradually establishes a business that can support not only herself and Tilly, a little girl she rescues from the streets, but also Patrick. Tragedy, however, is just around the corner, leaving Jess more determined than ever to regain the happiness and security she once had. 
- Title: A Mother's Love
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Eve and Eddie Dobson have been running the George pub in Liverpool for over twenty years. It's not been a bad life, with three nearly grown daughters fed and clothed out of the takings. Now, though, the Depression is taking hold and money is in short supply. It's galling for Eve that the barmaid they can barely afford spends the day making eyes at Eddie rather than pulling her weight behind the bar.
At least her girls have never been a worry to Eve. Lily's dreams of going on to the stage haven't led her into trouble, so far. Sarah seems content to slog away as a waitress, while Maggie's gently directing her devoted boyfriend to the altar. Surely they'll survive the difficult times?
Then Eddie's flirtation with the hired help takes an unexpected turn. Suddenly all the decisions are Eve's to make. And there are other surprises in store, which will leave none of Eve's family untouched ... and call on all the strength of a mother's love. 
- Title: Love And A Promise
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Maddy Kieman knows her situation is desperate. With her parents dead, her brother Thomas is left as guardian to her and her sister Carmel, and Thomas, Maddy is all too aware, only cares about himself. When his plans to marry the daughter of the Protestant canal agent backfire Thomas takes off to Liverpool, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Taking the momentous decision to follow their brother, Maddy leaves for Liverpool. Within days the girls are destitute, reduced to living in a cellar, their money gone. Eventually, Maddy finds work as a maid to an old lady, becoming her unpaid companion and sole beneficiary of her will. But Maddy has to promise not to marry until the woman who has rescued her and her sister dies. When Maddy meets a young seaman she realises she may have to choose between love and that promise... About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. The daughter of a policeman, she also married a policeman and, after becoming the mother of triplets, took some years off from her writing whilst she brought up her family. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. 
- Title: Mist Over The Mersey
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When the Chatterton family lose all their money, they end up in Scotland Road, a Liverpool slum area. Despite the efforts of the local residents to welcome them, they maintain their distance. The arrival of World War I, however, changes things dramatically for all the community. From the Back Cover The Chatterton family was posh, everyone could see that - far too posh for Scotland Road, the Liverpool slum area where they had ended up. Nancy Butterworth and Abbie Kerrigan, lifelong residents of the place, tried to befriend Dee Chatterton, but Dee's snobbish and sick mother wanted her family to have nothing to do with the rough street children. Mr Chatterton, meanwhile, weighed down with the worry and shame of having lost all his money, tried ineffectually to get together a home, and was not too proud to accept help from plump, good-hearted Bridie Butterworth and her neighbours. In the corner shop the Burgess family looked forward with excitement and trepidation to the arrival of their young cousin Sean from Dublin, and Nancy was not the only girl to lose her heart, and much else besides, to the Irish charmer. But with the arrival of 1914 things were to change dramatically for the inhabitants of this poor but closely-knit community. And the Chattertons, the Butterworths, the Kerrigans and the Burgesses found that money and social position meant little when the horrors of the First World War invaded their lives and took away their sons. About the Author Lyn AndrewsLyn Andrews was born and brought up on Merseyside, the daughter of a policeman. Now married to a policeman, she is the mother of grown-up triplets. She is the author of The White Empress, The Sisters O'Donnell, Liverpool Lou, Ellan Vannin, The Leaving of Liverpool, Maggie May, Mist Over the Mersey and Mersey Blues. 
- Title: Where The Mersey Flows
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On the face of it, friends Leah Cavendish and Nora O'Brian have little in common: Nora is a domestic and Leah the daughter of a wealthy haulage magnate. But both are isolated members of the opulent Cavendish household and, spirited young women, they instantly recognise kindred spirits in each other. So when Nora is unfairly flung on to the streets by Leah's grasping brother-in-law, Leah follows her, defiantly declaring her intention to move into a house in Liverpool's docklands, alongside Nora and her impoverished family. But nothing can prepare Leah for the squalor that greets her in Oil Street. Nor for the impact of meeting Sean Maguire, Nora's proud and handsome Irish neighbour... About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. 
- Title: Liverpool Lou
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Set in Liverpool in the 1930s, this is the new saga from the author of "The Sister O'Donnell".
Aunt Babsey considered herself a cut above her neighbours on Everton Ridge. For one thing she was 'trade' - she ran a greengrocery shop in public and a money lending business in private. She taught her children to be respectable, keep up appearances and not to mix with people like the Crowleys who were both Catholic and Irish. She ruled her family with a rod of iron. Fourteen year old Louisa was the only one who did not quite fit into the family scheme of things. Louisa. with her mother dead and her father at sea, was becoming increasingly aware that all around her was hardship and the grinding poverty of the 30's. As she grew into a young lady the tough conditions of Liverpool began to impinge on her life.
About the Author Lyn Andrews - Lyn Andrews was born and brought up on Merseyside, the daughter of a policeman. Now married to a policeman, she is the mother of grown-up triplets. She is the author of The White Empress, The Sisters O'Donnell, Liverpool Lou, Ellan Vannin, The Leaving of Liverpool, Maggie May, Mist Over the Mersey and Mersey Blues. 
- Title: Take These Broken Wings
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Thrown into the workhouse at the tender age of six, Hannah Peckham soon learns how hard the world is, but she emerges determined to make the most of what little life has given her. But the deprivations of workhouse life have left her ill-prepared to fulfil her new position in a prosperous Liverpool household. Naively she falls in love with a man she can never have. And when her illusions are finally shattered, she rushes into the arms of hard-drinking Alfie Duggan and a violent, poverty-stricken marriage from which there seems no escape - without unthinkable consequences... About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. The daughter of a policeman, she also married a policeman and, after becoming the mother of triplets, took some years off from her writing whilst she brought up her family. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. 
- Title: My Sister's Child
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For the inhabitants of Liverpool's Milton Street a steady income and a roof over their heads are luxuries. The Ryan family have barely grown accustomed to such things when a fire destroys their father Jack's modest coal haulage business, leaving Jack broken and his family facing ruin. They're forced to turn to Conor, Jack's brother from Ireland, a man whose noisy joviality seventeen-year-old Ellen Ryan suspects hides a mean viciousness. She's right, and with her mother sick and her half-sister Annie becoming increasingly feckless, it's down to Ellen to fight Conor's tyranny. But when Annie disappears, leaving her baby on their doorstep, Ellen begins fear for herself and for the life of the innocent child she has learnt to love... About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. 
- Title: Mersey Blues
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The Great War has ended and Dee Chatterton has happily settled down with Tommy Kerrigan, but Hannah Harvey has different aspirations - she moves to Ashenden as Richard\'s personal nurse, separated from close family and friends. A sequel to \"Mist over the Mersey\". From the Back Cover The Great War had ended and Scotland Road was left to count the cost. Many of the young men had not come back; those who had would never be quite the same again. Women had lost their sons, husbands and lovers, and Dee Chatterton and Abbie Kerrigan had also seen the horrors of war for themselves as nurses in the military hospitals of France and Belgium. Dee married Tommy Kerrigan and went to live in Canada while Abbie settled down with her childhood sweetheart Mike Burgess. The familiar surroundings of Scotland Road and Burlington Street, even with their attendant hardships, were all they wanted; and for Mike, safely returned from the horrors of the battlefield, there seemed only one career to follow - the Liverpool Police Force. For some of the locals, however, other horizons beckoned. Mike\'s flighty sister Chrissie fancied herself as part of high society when she went to work in a posh dress shop, while Hannah Harvey\'s wartime nursing had brought her into contact with no less a person than Richard, seventh Earl of Ashenden, badly injured in the war. Moving to the splendours of Ashenden Hall as Richard\'s personal nurse was to bring her unimagined happiness, but also the heartache of being separated forever from her family and friends. About the Author Lyn AndrewsLyn Andrews was born and brought up on Merseyside, the daughter of a policeman. Now married to a policeman, she is the mother of grown-up triplets. She is the author of The White Empress, The Sisters O\'Donnell, Liverpool Lou, Ellan Vannin, The Leaving of Liverpool, Maggie May, Mist Over the Mersey and Mersey Blues. 
- Title: The House On Lonely Street
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For Katherine Donovan the slums of Dublin are a lonely place. Her father, a pawnbroker, is the most hated man in the district, and Katherine an outcast. Her only friend is tiny Ceppi Healy, underfed, irrepressible and, the youngest in a neglected family of eight, as much an emotional orphan as eighteen-year-old Katherine. Then, one night, the unthinkable happens. Katherine's father is murdered, a victim of local revenge for an act of cruelty even she couldn't have anticipated. Fearing for her life, Katherine flees, taking with her the desperate young Ceppi. Liverpool is her longed-for haven and, with the last of her father's money, she rents a lodging house in a street decimated by the sinking of the Titanic. But, far from finding a refuge for herself and little girl she promised to protect, she realises she has put them into the path of terrible danger... About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. 
- Title: Across A Summer Sea
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Mary McGann's marriage has always been difficult, thanks to her husband Frank's drunken, jealous nature. Only because the little money he earns in the docks keeps food in the mouths of their children is Mary prepared to put up with him. But when Frank throws them all out on the street, Mary flees to her family in Dublin. There she meets Richard O'Neill, a handsome though solitary man. Despite the attraction between them, Mary's not looking for love, and when she hears that Frank needs her, she returns to Liverpool, foreseeing a future of yet more hardship. But there are surprises in store. Though tragedy and danger are looming, a brighter horizon lies beyond - if Mary's prepared to be strong and take the chances that come her way. About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. The daughter of a policeman, she also married a policeman and, after becoming the mother of triplets, took some years off from her writing whilst she brought up her family. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. 
- Title: Liverpool Lamplight
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Since they were kids in the backstreets of Liverpool, brother and sister Georgie and Katie Deegan have fought like cat and dog. Now Katie is at Moorehouse's lemonade factory, whilst Georgie has a good job at the B & A - and when he comes home he puts his feet up. Unlike Katie, who does her turn in their mother Molly's fish and game shop. Yet when their father dies suddenly, Georgie assumes the shop is his - and that his chance has come to rule the Deegan roost. Katie has other ideas, as does her strong-minded mother Molly. But, as World War II draws closer and Georgie's illegal money-making schemes gain momentum, neither Katie nor her mother has any idea what troubles lie in store for the women whose lives the ruthless Georgie Deegan is set to control - at any cost... About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. The daughter of a policeman, she also married a policeman and, after becoming the mother of triplets, took some years off from her writing whilst she brought up her family. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. 
- Title: The Ties That Bind
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Tessa was her brothers' lifeline when her mother died - the privations of war are just another battle for her to fight. Elizabeth has had a comfortable life, but the pressures of her mother's ambitions are a different kind of hardship and when war comes it offers her a chance for freedom. About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. The daughter of a policeman, she also married a policeman and, after becoming the mother of triplets, took some years off from her writing whilst she brought up her family. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award.. 
- Title: Angels Of Mercy
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Kate Greenway loves Frank Lynch, even though she knows her old friend Josie Ryan has set her sights on him, whilst Kate's twin Evvie is secretly meeting the son of a local Jewish pawnbroker, Ben Steadman. Kate soon discovers that Frank is weak, but her heartbreak is nothing compared to the tragedy the Great War brings. About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. The daughter of a policeman, she also married a policeman and, after becoming the mother of triplets, took some years off from her writing whilst she brought up her family. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award.. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. 
- Title: When Tomorrow Dawns
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1945. The people of Liverpool, after six years of terror and grief and getting by, are making the best of the hard-won peace, none more so than the ebullient O'Sheas. They welcome widowed Mary O'Malley from Dublin, her young son Kevin, and Breda, her bold strap of a sister, with open arms and hearts. Mary is determined to make a fresh start for her family, despite Breda, who is soon up to her old tricks. At first all goes well, and Mary begins to build an understanding with their new neighbour Chris Kennedy -- until events take a dramatic turn that puts Chris beyond her reach. Forced to leave the shelter of the O'Sheas' home, humiliated and bereft, Mary faces a future that is suddenly uncertain once more. But she knows that life has to go on! About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. The daughter of a policeman, she also married a policeman and, after becoming the mother of triplets, took some years off from her writing whilst she brought up her family. In 1993 Lyn was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award. 
- Title: Liverpool Songbird
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A saga about one young gifted Liverpudlian girl's struggle against hardship in the 1920s. By the author of MAGGIE MAY, MIST OVER THE MERSEY and MERSEY BLUES. 
- Title: The Ties That Bind: With Liverpool Songbird
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Two bestselling Novels 
- Title: Far From Home
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This is the wonderful new novel from Headline's queen of sagas. As daughter of the blacksmith in her tiny Irish village, fifteen-year-old Kitty Doyle knows little of the ways of the world, but she has to grow up fast when her widowed father re-marries and she has no choice but to leave the family home. Luckily, there's work to be found over the water in 1920s Liverpool and soon Kitty has a job in a grocer's job, where she also catches the eye of the owner. With Kitty's input the business is soon thriving - but tragedy lies ahead, and she must endure many trials and tribulations before she can find true happiness! About the Author Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. She is the author of many novels, one of which was shortlisted for Romantic Novelists Association Award; her last few novels have all been Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers. 
- Title: The Leaving Of Liverpool
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Phoebe-Ann Parkinson was, according to her mother and her sister Emily, developing ideas above her station. As a maid in 1919 Liverpool, she dreamt of a much grander future, but found all her dreams were threatened by the drunken Jake Malone. From the Back Cover Phoebe-Ann Parkinson was, according to her mum Lily and sister Emily, developing ideas above her station. In the Liverpool of 1919, still recovering from the effects of war, Emily was happy to go into service and be courted by the kind reliable Edwin. But Phoebe-Ann, working as a lady's maid to Miss Olivia Mercer, dreamed of a grander future, in which she was more than a servant to her young mistress and a confidante to Olivia's badly shell-shocked brother James. Then a tragic attack threatened to ruin Emily's life, and Phoebe-Ann was driven from the Mercer household and into the arms of Jake Malone, a member of the notorious, drunken Malone family. Abandoned by her family, loathed and despised by the foul-mouthed Ma Malone, she found her dreams turning to nightmare. But as Emily began to recover, Phoebe-Ann was able to start forging a new life for herself and to look forward to leaving Liverpool and her past behind her. About the Author Lyn AndrewsLyn Andrews was born and brought up on Merseyside, the daughter of a policeman. Now married to a policeman, she is the mother of grown-up triplets. She is the author of The White Empress, The Sisters O'Donnell, Liverpool Lou, Ellan Vannin, The Leaving of Liverpool, Maggie May, Mist Over the Mersey and Mersey Blues.
