Audrey Howard Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

Set against the background of World War I and two stately homes that became hospitals for the wounded, Softly Grow The Poppies is an epic saga of love and war.Rose Beechworth is mistress of a charming country house, left to her by her wealthy father. In the summer of 1914, her friend Alice Weatherly, a spoilt but lovable heiress, longs to kiss Captain Charlie Summers goodbye. When Rose accompanies Alice to Liverpool's Lime Street Station, she meets Charlie's brother Harry ... and falls head over heels in love.As the war takes its terrible toll, Alice becomes a wayward heroine, while Rose finds herself running not one but two great houses, and it seems impossible that any of them will ever find happiness again ...

A young woman's quest for the family she lost ... The brilliant new saga from Audrey Howard.

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.

Rose Alley is one of the city's worst slums - a place where hunger, filth and violence are a way of life. It's no place for proud Queenie Logan and her daughter Gillyflower. And it seems Queenie's dreams of escape will come true. Transformed by Miss Hunter's School for Girls, Gilly opens a successful dressmaking shop. And though she always thought she would marry the boy next door, soon she is courted by one of the richest young men in the city.But they have made a terrible enemy, who lurks in the Liverpool slums and seeks his chance to destroy them. And in the respectable new world they have joined someone else will prove even more dangerous to Gilly and those she loves.

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?

Vibrant and headstrong, Ally Pearce loves working on the Edith, her family's narrowboat, proving she's the equal of any man on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. Betsy, delicate, calculating and sensuously beautiful, wants only to become a 'lady' - and will use the most unladylike means to become one. When Dr Tom Hartley enters the sisters' lives after a tragic accident both are attracted to him - but for very different reasons...

Briar Macauley's stubbornness to prove to the world that she is the equal to any man leads her into so many disastrous circumstances that her parents despair of ever making a lady of her. With the appearance of Hal Saunders, Briar exchanges her wild ways for a husband and child she would die for and becomes the model of a perfect wife. But when tragedy strikes, Briar must use all of her courage and determination just to endure.

Liverpool saga set in the early years of 20th century.

To Sir Robert Blenkinsopp, his frail, exquisite wife Amy is just another possession to be misused and discarded. Amy is overjoyed when the brute is found unconscious at the bottom of his own staircase, deprived of the power of speech and movement. With the help of the servants and a new companion, she makes the estate not only happier but richer as well. But Sir Robert Blenkinsopp is not dead. Imprisoned in the wreck of his body, his only companion a loathesome servant, he is plotting a vicious revenge on Amy, her children, and the man who has come to love her.

Clare Hanrahan has nothing left to lose the day she stumbles into Lew Earnshaw's arms. Her family is gone and her own life hangs by a thread after a desperate season seeking work. By the time Lew and his kindly neighbours have nursed Clare back to health, he is hopelessly in love with the frail Irish girl. But though she will always care for Lew, another man comes between them. Martin Heywood could not be more different from the gentle, idealistic weaver. The rich young farmer is proud, arrogant and devastatingly handsome. He sweeps Clare off her feet, inspires her to better herself, steals her love away. What he cannot do is marry a mere servant girl. Even if it breaks both their hearts . . .