Set against the background of World War I, and two stately homes that became hospitals for the wounded, Audrey Howard's novel is an epic saga of love and war.
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Set against the background of World War I, and two stately homes that became hospitals for the wounded, Audrey Howard's novel is an epic saga of love and war.
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Rose Beechworth is mistress of a charming country house – her own, left to her by her wealthy father. In the summer of 1914, she is not even looking for love.Alice Weatherly turns Rose's world upside down. The loveable young heiress longs to kiss Captain Charlie Summers goodbye – she takes Rose to Liverpool's Lime Street station and into the heart of Charlie's brother Harry. Even though they are neighbours, they have never met, for Rose ignores the social round, while Harry's time is taken up desperately attempting to keep his father's ramshackle estate together. When he inherits Summer Place, a magnificent mansion with a proud history, he gladly lets it become a hospital for wounded soldiers.As the war takes its terrible toll and Charlie disappears into the fog of battle, Alice – the spoilt runaway heiress – becomes a heroine, while Rose finds herself running two great houses. It seems impossible that any of them can ever find happiness again.
Critic Reviews
'Among the dross that constitutes the Liverpool saga market for women, Howard's enjoyable 19th-century historical romance of crossed love shines out.' -- The Daily Mail
'Poignant and well plotted, this is the book to curl up with to shut out troubles.' -- Women's Realm
About the Author
Audrey Howard was born on 1929 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, and grew up in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, where she lives in her childhood home.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 published since 1984. In 1988, her novel The Juniper Bush won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Carole Boyd is a British actress. She has had a career in theatre, television and radio and plays Lynda Snell in BBC Radio 4’s The Archers. Carole trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama, where she won the principal national prize for voice and the Carleton Hobbs Award. Her TV appearances include Hetty Wainthrop Investigates, Virtual Murder, Mrs Melly in Bodger and Badger. She has also been the voice of all the female characters in Postman Pat since 1991.
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