Book description
An emotional portrayal of the lives of four women as Valentine's day
approaches, in 1941 wartime London
'Life brought enough problems and upsets for young hearts, especially
young female hearts, without them having to carry the added burden of
the war…'
Tilly is passionately in love with the dashing American journalist,
Drew. But he is harbouring a secret that threatens their burgeoning
love. At the same time, Dulcie's brother Rick walks back into her life,
the man who she longed for all those years ago…
Agnes is comforted by the loving arms of her caring train driver fiancé
Ted. And Sally could not be happier with her talented surgeon boyfriend
at her side, especially since he's risked his life to visit her at the
stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve.
For Tilly's mother, Olive, the cold heart that had been frozen since
her partner died, is beginning to thaw. But the man she pines for is
betrothed to another. The net curtains on the well-to-do Article Row
have been twitching, and prying eyes have seen the way she's been
looking at Sergeant Dawson…
When the clock strikes midnight at the Hammersmith Palais, three
couples stare deeply into their lovers' eyes. The confident and
stunningly beautiful East Ender, Dulcie, is left alone once more,
abandoned by her boyfriend at this most precious of precious moments.
But the women of No. 13 Article Row know that joy is short lived in the
London of 1941. It's a treacherous place, especially for the
tender-hearted. As Valentine's Day approaches, the perils of war
threaten life as they know it and all matters of the heart. Praise for
Annie Groves:
'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
'Heartwrenching and uplifting in equal measure - a tragic indictment of
what can happen when you swap passion for duty. Roll on the sequel!'
Take a Break
'Written from the heart' My Weekly 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.
