3 books by Rosie Harris
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Overview: Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and for several years worked in the City Hall.
She has been writing since the 1950’s. In the 1960’s she ran her own agency, Regional Feature Service, writing articles for most of the provincial newspapers.
During the 70’s she became Editorial Controller for a non-fiction house.
In the 1980’s, after publishing a number of non-fiction titles she turned to fiction and during the 1980/90’s had a number of short stories published as well as five books by Sphere under the name Marion Harris.
Since 2002 she has had some 20 books published by Heinemann/Arrow. She sets her books in the 20’s because she has a great admiration for the women who were wives and mothers in those days. They had none of the current time-saving equipment – no washing machines or vacuum cleaners, no instant electric fires or cookers, and certainly no Internet. Their days were long and arduous and often they had to manage on very little money.
In 2005 she was one of the judges when Arrow and Asda collaborated in a major national competition to find the next big saga writer.
Genre: Historical Fiction
Guarded Passions: A Family Saga from World War Two
1943. Wartime England. Married to a Guardsman at the age of eighteen after a whirlwind courtship, Helen Woodley believed her future was assured only to be widowed before she was forty. Though she put on a brave face, Helen could no more reconcile herself to Adam s death than she could accept the hemmed-in, incestuous life of the Army and all its intrigues and affairs.
And now Helen is faced with an unwelcome sense of deja vu. For her impulsive, free-spirited daughter Ruth, eighteen years old herself, has fallen madly in love with a soldier about to be posted to Northern Ireland, a man whom she s desperately anxious to marry. Can Helen prevent history from repeating itself?
Love or Duty
Liverpool, 1924. Racing to meet her fiancé in her father’s new-fangled motor car, Penny Forshaw knocks over a little girl and – much to her fiancé’s disapproval – feels it her duty to take in six-year-old Kelly while she recovers. But little did Penny anticipate the challenges and responsibilities of looking after a child from the slums, and Kelly’s miserable, poverty-stricken existence opens Penny’s eyes to a world she never knew existed.
Her relationship with her fiancé Arnold under strain, Penny’s decision to take in young Kelly will change her life in ways she could never have expected. She wanted to give Kelly a better chance in life – but it may be Kelly who changes Penny’s life for the better.
Chance Encounters
August, 1942. 21-year-old Megan Lloyd is determined to do her bit for the war effort and a chance encounter with an American army officer in Liverpool gives her an idea of how to do just that. Appalled at the plight of young women left pregnant and destitute following ill-fated love affairs with passing sailors or American GIs, Megan determines to establish a place of refuge for unmarried mothers – a plan which incurs her father s intense disapproval.
But Megan finds herself unprepared for the challenges that lie ahead. Trauma, drama, heartbreak and moments of great joy will follow and in the midst of it all Megan will find unexpected love.
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