Book description
The stunning saga debut from a star of the genre - ELLIE PRIDE is an
engrossing, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in
the North-west in the early part of the twentieth century.
A stirring, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set
in the early years of the 1900s as the First World War looms.
After the tragic death of her mother, beautiful, headstrong Ellie Pride
must forge her own way in the world. Having made a deathbed promise to
her mother to forsake passion for stability and social status, Ellie
rejects the advances of local craftsman Gideon Walker, despite her deep
attraction to him. With her grieving father struggling to cope, Ellie is
exiled to live with her aunt and uncle. Her mother hoped Ellie would be
able to escape her humble roots forever. But despite the so-called
luxury, Ellie is left frightened and alone.
Her uncle quickly reveals a terrifying cruelty that forces her into a
loveless marriage in order to escape him. Struggling to support her weak
husband against his penny-pinching father, Ellie never forgets her love
for Gideon. Their paths are destined to cross again and again.
But when events take a tragic turn, Ellie needs all her pride and
strength to overcome hardship, and to triumph. 'An engrossing story.'
My Weekly
'A stirring and heartrending family saga…Against a backdrop of change
when the suffragette movement was coming to the fore, the choices and
dreams of a generation of women combine to create this passionate
story.' Liverpool Daily Post Annie Groves was born and lived in the
north-west of England all of her life. She was the author of the Pride
family series, Ellie Pride, Connie's Courage and Hettie of Hope Street,
for which she drew upon her own family's history, picked up from
listening to her grandmother's stories when she was a child. Her next
set of novels was the World War II series Goodnight Sweetheart, Some
Sunny Day, The Grafton Girls and As Time Goes By. These were followed by
the Campion series, Across the Mersey, Daughters of Liverpool, The Heart
of the Family, Where the Heart Is and When the Lights Go on Again, which
are also based on recollections from members of her family, who come
from the city of Liverpool. My Sweet Valentine follows on from Home for
Christmas and London Belles and is the third in this series, which
introduces a set of glorious characters living in Article Row in Holborn.
Annie Groves, whose real name was Penny Halsall, also wrote under the
name of Penny Jordan and was an international bestselling author of over
170 novels with sales of over 84 million copies.
Sadly, Penny Halsall died in 2011. She left a wonderful legacy of
heart-warming novels for many more fans to discover and she will be
greatly missed by all who knew her.
The final books in the Article Row series, Only a Mother Knows and A
Christmas Promise, will be published posthumously in 2013. Annie Groves
was born and lived in the north-west of England all of her life. She was
the author of the Pride family series, Ellie Pride, Connie's Courage and
Hettie of Hope Street, for which she drew upon her own family's history,
picked up from listening to her grandmother's stories when she was a
child. Her next set of novels was the World War II series Goodnight
Sweetheart, Some Sunny Day, The Grafton Girls and As Time Goes By. These
were followed by the Campion series, Across the Mersey, Daughters of
Liverpool, The Heart of the Family, Where the Heart Is and When the
Lights Go on Again, which are also based on recollections from members
of her family, who come from the city of Liverpool. My Sweet Valentine
follows on from Home for Christmas and London Belles and is the third in
this series, which introduces a set of glorious characters living in
Article Row in Holborn.
Annie Groves, whose real name was Penny Halsall, also wrote under the
name of Penny Jordan and was an international bestselling author of over
170 novels with sales of over 84 million copies.
Sadly, Penny Halsall died in 2011. She left a wonderful legacy of
heart-warming novels for many more fans to discover and she will be
greatly missed by all who knew her.
The final books in the Article Row series, Only a Mother Knows and A
Christmas Promise, will be published posthumously in 2013.
