Book description
Mara O'Shaughnessy, eighth of thirteen children, longs to escape from
the crowded tumult of her family. Her sister Caitlin, quiet but
determined, is already involved with the suffragettes. Meanwhile,
Elizabeth Woodall lives at Woodall Park with her parents in a world of
servanted ease, country pursuits and suitable marriages. Yet in the
golden years before World War I, Liverpool Irish and English gentry are
to become fatefully, passionately entangled. Audrey Howard was born in
Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs,
among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil
servant. In 1981 she wrote the first of her novels when she was out of
work and living in Australia. There are now more than twenty, and her
fourth, THE JUNIPER BUSH, won the Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award
in 1988. She now divides her time between her childhood home, St Anne's
on Sea, Lancashire, and a home in the Yorkshire Dales.
