Book description
Audrey Howard's long-awaited new novel is an epic saga of love and war.
Rose Beechworth is mistress of a charming country house - her own, left
to her by her wealthy father. In the summer of 1914, she is not even
looking for love. Alice Weatherly turns Rose's world upside down. The
loveable young heiress longs to kiss Captain Charlie Summers goodbye -
she takes Rose to Liverpool's Lime Street station and into the heart of
Charlie's brother Harry. Even though they are neighbours, they have
never met, for Rose ignores the social round, while Harry's time is
taken up desperately attempting to keep his father's ramshackle estate
together. He becomes the master of Summer Place, a magnificent mansion
with a proud history. He is only too glad when it becomes a hospital for
wounded soldiers. As the war takes its terrible toll and Charlie
disappears into the fog of battle, Alice - the spoilt runaway heiress -
becomes a heroine, while Rose finds herself running two great houses. It
seems impossible that any of them can ever find happiness again . . .
'Howard's timeless story of love and betrayal is sure to enchant her
army of loyal readers' 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,
while living in Australia, she wrote the first of her bestselling
novels. Here fourth novel, The Juniper Bush, won the Romantic Novel of
the Year Award in 1988. She lives in St Anne's on Sea, her childhood
home.
