Audrey Howard

Audrey Howard
Born	1929 (age 86–87) Liverpool, Merseyside, England
Pen name	Audrey Howard
Occupation	Novelist
Language	English
Nationality	British
Period	1984-Present
Genre	Romance
Notable awards	RoNA Award

Audrey Howard (born 1929 in Liverpool, Merseyside) is an English writer of historical romance novels. In 1988, her novel The Juniper Bush won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.^[1]

Biography

Audrey Howard was born on 1929 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom, and grew up in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, where she lives in her childhood home.^[2]

She worked as a hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant, before she began to write in Australia in 1981. She published her first novel in 1984.

Bibliography

Single novels

• The Skylark's Song (1984)
• The Morning Tide (1985)
• Ambitions (1986)
• The Juniper Bush (1987)
• Between Friends (1988)
• The Mallow Years (1991)
• Shining Threads (1992)
• A Day Will Come (1992)
• All the Dear Faces (1993)
• There is no Parting (1993)
• 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 (1997)
• Strand of Dreams (1997)
• Tomorrows Memories (1997)
• Not a Bird Will Sing (1998)
• When Morning Comes (1998)
• Beyond the Shining Water (1999)
• Angel Meadow (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)

Liverpool's Irish Families Saga

1. Ambitions (1986)
2. All the Dear Faces (1992)
3. There Is No Parting (1993)

Lancashire's Mill Saga

1. The Mallow Years (1990)
2. Shining Threads (1991)

Townley Saga

1. The Silence of Strangers (1995)
2. A World of Difference (1995)

Andrews Saga

1. Promises Lost (1996)
2. The Shadowed Hills (1996)

References and sources

1. Awards by the Romantic Novelists' Association, 2012-10-05
2. Audrey Howard at Hodder & Stoughton, 2012-10-05