Audrey Howard

Audrey, Howard

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Echo of Another Time 36 Copy D

The Mallow Years

From the winner of the 1988 Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Kit Chapman, daughter of a Lancashire mill-owner who made his fortune by ruthlessly exploiting the women and children who spin his cotton, has been given the privilege of managing her inheritance - if she proves herself to be as strong as her father. Joss Greenwood, a weaver, has dedicated his life to the mill-owners' victims. They meet on the moors they both love - and then again on opposite sides of the war between the industrial age and the gentle world it replaced. And their friendship becomes love...

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Shining Threads

First winner of the Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1988).  At the centre of this story are three young women to whom life seems to offer every opportunity during the early years of the twentieth century.. Ambitious Mara O'Shaughnessy seizes her chance to marry James Osborne, heir to Lacy Hemingway Osborne's fortune...Caitlin O'Shaughnessy - Mara's sister - risks her death for women's rights, spurning the man who loves her...Dutiful Elizabeth Osborne, Lacy's granddaughter, must choose between the man everyone expects her to marry and her secret passion for her brother-in law...All three women seem set for happiness - until World War I shatters their lives.

All the Dear Faces

Romance

The Woman from Browhead

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. Annie returns to Browhead, the beautiful lonely hill farm above Bassenthwaite 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 lnot help a woman who presumes to buy sheep and raise crops without a husband at her side. Except for one man. Reed Macaulay, son of the district's most prosperous landowner, knows that Annie is the only woman he will ever love. Secretly, he helps her any way he can. Secretly, because Reed has promised to marry another woman . . .'Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller' Lancashire Life

Woman from Browhead

Contemporary

Celie Marlow begins working in the Latimers' kitchen at the age of ten. But she falls in love with the wrong man: her employer's son. Banished from Briar Lodge, she is betrayed by a treacherous friend and she finds herself penniless and desperate on Liverpool's street.

Echo of Another Time

Strand of Dreams

The story of Molly O'Dowd from the cotton mills. Molly must make her own way in an unforgiving world, yet dares to reach for happiness in spite of everything.

Hodder & Staughton

<p>The story of Molly O'Dowd from the cotton mills. Molly must make her own way in an unforgiving world, yet dares to reach for happiness in spite of everything.</p>

Strand of Dreams - Bookpeople Edition

<p>Set in the teeming slums 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 it all.</p>

Beyond the Shining Water

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hodder&Stoughton

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