I romanzi di Audrey Howard sono caratterizzati dalla loro attenzione verso donne resilienti che affrontano aspettative sociali e sfide personali. Possiede un talento nel creare atmosfere immersive, attirando i lettori nei distinti periodi storici in cui sono ambientate le sue storie. Le sue narrazioni approfondiscono temi universali come l'amore, la perdita e la forza duratura dello spirito umano. Attraverso la sua prosa avvincente, Howard offre profonde intuizioni sulla vita delle donne in diversi contesti storici.
Lally Fraser, widowed at 20, seeks comfort with dashing young millowner Roly Sinclair. When she finds she is expecting his baby, she turns to his dour brother Harry. Secretly in love with her, Harry offers her marriage. Roly, though, is anything but pleased. Threatening scandal or worse, he sets out to destroy them both.
An unforgettable story of a star-crossed marriage, set amid the Lake District's fells.
When Lily Elliott's father dies she loses everything - not just a beloved protector and his wonderful ship the Lily-Jane, but also the way of life she has always known. As her mother sinks into a dream-world and the money which had always seemed sufficient turns out to have been mostly debts, Lily watches, bewildered, as destitution comes ever closer for the Elliott women and their loyal housekeeper. Then two rescuers appear. One is the most unlikely saviour: Liam O'Connor, a poor seaman who selflessly befriends the unhappy little girl. The other is Joshua Crowther, the wealthy owner of Oakwood Place, a grand country mansion where the desperate women finally find refuge.
Nancy Brody is different from the rest of the folk in Angel Meadow, the appalling slum where her drunken mother Kitty was a prostitute . . . Only nine years old, Nancy decides to save her sisters Mary and Rose from the workhouse. She gets work for them all at the Monarch Cotton Manufacturing Mill - and then sets out to better herself and her sisters. Saving every penny, working every waking hour, Nancy succeeds, becoming a manufacturer herself. But happiness seems as elusive for Nancy as it was when she was a mistreated child. Though he once said he loved her, Mick O'Rourke has become Nancy's worst enemy, and seems destined to take a terrible revenge on her and her sisters. And Josh Hayes, the man who truly loves Nancy, seems destined to be parted from her.
When Abby Murphy discovers she's heiress to one of St. Helens' largest glass works, her whole life is turned upside down. Torn from her poverty-stricken family and forbidden to see her childhood sweetheart, Roddy Baxter, she is forced by her tyrannical grandfather to become a lady. Then Roddy disappears and soon, it seems inevitable that Abby will have to marry her grandfather's chosen successor. Trapped in a marriage where she is little more than a possession, Abby is determined that no matter what else might change, nothing will stand in the way of her steadfast passion for Roddy. But is she prepared to give up everything she has now for a love from the past?
Set in the 1840s in the Lancashire coalfields, this is the story of two women who love the same man. Heiress Nella Fielden sets her heart on Jonas Townley and marries him, but his heart belongs to Nella's protegee Leah, a lowly miner's daughter. Tragedy follows when Nella learns she has a rival.
The heroine is Annie Abbott, daughter and only child of a poverty-stricken hill farmer and his downtrodden wife, who runs away with a theatrical group at the age of 15. Annie returns to Browhead, the beautiful lonely hill farm above Bassenthwaite Lake, with only her pride and her baby daughter to sustain her. Her parents are dead, her old friends dare not be seen with an unmarried mother and the other farmers will lnot help a woman who presumes to buy sheep and raise crops without a husband at her side. Except for one man. Reed Macaulay, son of the district's most prosperous landowner, knows that Annie is the only woman he will ever love. Secretly, he helps her any way he can. Secretly, because Reed has promised to marry another woman . . . 'Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller' Lancashire Life
Set in Lancashire in the 19th century, this is the story of a woman whose life becomes a search for revenge against the rich landowner who helped ruin her childhood. The author also wrote The Skylark's Song, The Morning Tide, The Juniper Bush, The Mallow Years and Shining Threads.
Liverpool saga set in the early years of 20th century.
Zoe was born in the poorest street in Liverpool. As the youngest of five children her life in Merseyside slum meant brutality, degration and appaling poverty. But Zoe was bright, sensitive and determined to escape. Freedom would bring her wealth, luxury and love - and heartache she could never have imagined...
