Book description
When Lucy Dean - eighteen, with no money - marries James Buchanan - a
man of thirty-four with a great fortune -it is anything but a happy
match. For James is hopelessly in love with his wife while Lucy - too
young, too serious and too determined to sacrifice happiness to duty -
doesn't know what love means. Then the Great War comes, and Lucy's heart
wakens, with truly shattering results for them both. 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. She lives in St Anne's on Sea, her childhood
home.