Book description
Celie Marlow begins working in the Latimers' kitchen when she is only
ten, learning her art from Mrs Harper. By the age of 18 she has become a
talented cook. But when she falls in love with a Latimer, all their
lives change with frightening swiftness. Driven from her home, Celie
finds unexpected success in a new venture with her old boss - then loses
everything once more. Thrown on to the streets of Liverpool, penniless
and desperate, she will have to find her own way.'Her thousands of fans
recognise the artistry of a true storyteller' Lancashire Life 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.
