Audrey Howard Books In Order

Mallow Years Books In Order

The Mallow Years (1989)
Shining Threads (1991)

All the Dear Faces Books In Order

All the Dear Faces (1992)
There Is No Parting (1993)

Novels

The Skylark’s Song (1984)
The Morning Tide (1985)
Ambitions (1986)
The Juniper Bush (1987)
Between Friends (1988)
A Day Will Come (1992)
The Woman from Browhead (1994)
Echo of Another Time (1994)
The Silence of Strangers (1995)
A World of Difference (1995)
Promises Lost (1996)
The Shadowed Hills (1996)
Strand of Dreams (1997)
Tomorrows Memories (1997)
Not a Bird Will Sing (1998)
When Morning Comes (1998)
Angel Meadow (1999)
Beyond the Shining Water (1999)
Rivers of the Heart (2000)
The Seasons Will Pass (2000)
A Place Called Hope (2001)
Annie’s Girl (2001)
Whispers on the Water (2002)
A Flower in Season (2002)
Painted Highway (2003)
Reflections from the Past (2003)
Distant Images (2004)
As the Night Ends (2005)
Rose Alley (2006)
A Time Like No Other (2007)
The Long Way Home (2008)
The Flight of Swallows (2009)
Softly Grow the Poppies (2012)

Omnibus

The Mallow Years / Shining Threads (1994)
Day Will Come / Beyond the Shining Water (2000)
Woman from Browhead / When Morning Comes (2000)

Mallow Years Book Covers

All the Dear Faces Book Covers

Novels Book Covers

Omnibus Book Covers

Audrey Howard Books Overview

The Mallow Years

This is the story of the love between a daughter of a mill owner and a weaver. Their love develops and has to struggle for fulfilment through times of terrible distress, violence, and passion.

Ill matched, yet passionately attracted, the relationship of Callum and Maris is threatened by the violent upheaval of events around them as the depression years of the 1930s give way to World War II.

A Day Will Come

Daisy Brindle is hired by a brutal master for stone picking in Lancashire. Miles Thornley, heir to a great estate, seduces her and then casually casts her aside. Driven to the streets, Daisy is rescued by Sam Lassiter, and as his wife and business partner, Daisy comes to enjoy the better things in life. But her drive for revenge on Miles threatens the destruction of her marriage…

The Woman from Browhead

The hero*ine 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. Eventually hearing that her parents have died, Annie returns to the Lakes to claim the farm. But now she has an illegitimate daughter and virtually no one will speak to her. Only a local landowner who is engaged to marry another woman, comes to help her.

The Silence of Strangers

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.

A World of Difference

Ship owner Conal MacRae is the most exciting man that cosseted heiress Jenna Townley has ever met, but he is not the gentleman that Jonas Townley meant his elder daughter to marry. Jenna, whose plan it is to direct the coal mines that will one day be hers, never meant to fall in love at all.

Strand of Dreams

When mill worker Molly O’Dowd falls in love with factory owner Tim Broadbent, all her dreams seem to come true. Their passionate marriage catapults Molly into a luxurious new world, but tragedy awaits. It’s only when she seems to have lost everything that Molly at lasts finds happiness.

Tomorrows Memories

Her work is her life, until Sally Grimshaw’s brother falls into the clutches of sinister Richard Keene. Sally is faced with a stark choice: destitution or service to the odious Mr. Keene. And when all her attempts fail, she finds herself with nothing left but her stubborn pride. Then she finds an unexpected refuge…

When Morning Comes

Lucy Dean is a young woman of eighteen years with no money, no job and four young brothers and sisters to support. James Buchanan is a young man of thirty four years with a great fortune, who thinks that Lucy Dean is the most remarkable girl he has ever met.

Angel Meadow

From the age of nine, Nancy Brody knew she wanted to save her sisters from the life of prostitution that plagued their mother. She finds them jobs and becomes a manufacturer herself, but there are many more obstacles the brave young girl must face before she can find true happiness.

Beyond the Shining Water

Set in the teeming slums of 19th century Liverpool, Audrey Howard’s enthralling new novel is a story of an innocent girl’s journey from riches to rags and to a new life beyond it all.

Rivers of the Heart

Beautiful and untameable, Kitty Hayes has only ever loved one man. From the moment she met him, she believed with all her heart that her adopted brother Freddy would one day be her husband. When he chooses to marry her sister instead, it breaks her heart, and she enters into a loveless marriage. It is only when her selfishness leads to an unforgivable accident that she realizes what she has lost and by then, it may be too late.

The Seasons Will Pass

Clare 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 neighbors 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, a rich, young farmer sweeps Clare off her feet; however, he cannot marry a mere servant girl, even if it breaks both their hearts.

A Place Called Hope

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.

Annie’s Girl

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.

Whispers on the Water

Grace Tooley falls for Rupert Bradley when she is young, but he sees her as a mere girl and marries a woman from his own station in life. They meet again when the Great War has changed them both. Grace has suffered loss and pain and emerged as a strong, passionate woman. Rupert, nearly broken by the horrors he has endured, has been humiliated by the bride who once seemed so right for him, and he rejects Grace’s love and any hope of future happiness. But Grace is determined to rediscover the spirit of the only boy she ever loved in the man who is ready to die.

Painted Highway

Vibrant and headstrong, Ally Pearce loves working on her family’s narrowboat, proving she’s the equal of any man on the Leeds to Liverpool canal. Betsy is delicate, 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.

Reflections from the Past

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?

Distant Images

As they dazzle all the men at Queen Victoria’s jubilee ball, Beth and Milly Goodwin seem to be mirror images of one another beautiful, graceful and rich. They can take their pick of any man in St. Helens, but the only man in the room either of them wants is the one who could destroy both their lives.

As the Night Ends

Driven by her idealism and courage, Alex Goodwin will make any sacrifice to win votes for women. Her despairing family is overjoyed when Patrick O’Leary comes into her life. A hard working young surgeon, Patrick is as idealistic as Alex and loves her with all his heart. Then they are separated first by a quarrel, then by the terrible war which engulfs their world, and finally by a tragedy that seems to make it impossible for either of them ever to love again.

Rose Alley

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.

A Time Like No Other

Lally Fraser, widowed at 20, has at last found comfort with the dashing young woolen mill owner Roly Sinclair. But when Lally finds she is expecting Roly’s child, she turns to his dour brother Harry, who has always been secretly in love with her. Harry offers Lally his hand in marriage, and Roly is anything but pleased. Threatening scandal or worse, he sets out to destroy them both. When Harry is injured in a vicious attack, Lally must take charge of the mills to protect her children and the man she is growing to love from the onslaught of his own brother.

The Long Way Home

Amy Pearson’s family is desperately poor even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and snobbery who wants a girl she can mould as she wishes. Clever and pretty, ten year old Amy is perfect for her purposes. It is the beginning of a long journey for Amy, as she desperately searches for the family she lost, and a home where she can be free at last from her aunt’s possessive tyranny. But she will have to endure a forced marriage and a tragic war before she can at last find what she seeks.

The Flight of Swallows

Audrey Howard’s enthralling new saga is set in Yorkshire as the Victorian era draws to its close. Charlotte Drummond knows she has a duty to obey her father. Girls, especially well bred upper class ones, are expected to be submissive to the men in their lives. But Charlotte’s father is a cruel man, viciously beating her and her brothers for the slightest reason. He even wants to marry her off, at just sixteen years old, to a man she does not love. Lion hearted Charlotte wants to defy him but to protect her brothers from his fury she agrees to become the wife of Brooke Armstrong. Charlotte does not understand that Brooke adores her, and that he would never have forced his enchanting new wife to agree to the match. As they begin their ill starred marriage, Brooke welcomes her brothers into his home and sets out to make her love him. And when Charlotte turns her back on her social duties to turn the Dower House into a home for Wakefield’s fallen women his patience is tested to the limit. Only when tragedy strikes will she will be able to admit that she loved him from the moment they met. But will it be too late?