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Softly Grow the Poppies

Audrey Howard

Rose Beechworth is mistress of a charming country house - her own, left to her by her wealthy father. In the summer of 1914, she is not even looking for love.
Alice Weatherly turns Rose's world upside down. The loveable young heiress longs to kiss Captain Charlie Summers goodbye - she takes Rose to Liverpool's Lime Street station and into the heart of Charlie's brother Harry. Even though they are neighbours, they have never met, for Rose ignores the social round, while Harry's time is taken up desperately attempting to keep his father's ramshackle estate together. When he inherits Summer Place, a magnificent mansion with a proud history, he gladly lets it become a hospital for wounded soldiers.
As the war takes its terrible toll and Charlie disappears into the fog of battle, Alice - the spoilt runaway heiress - becomes a heroine, while Rose finds herself running two great houses. It seems impossible that any of them can ever find happiness again.

'Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller' Lancashire Life

  • Classification : Romance
  • Pub Date : NOV 8, 2012
  • Imprint : Hodder Paperbacks
  • Page Extent : 400
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9781444755978
  • Price : INR 899
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Audrey Howard

Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs among them hairdresser model shop assistant cleaner and civil servant. In 1981 she wrote the first of her novels when she was out of work and living in Australia. There are now more than twenty and her fourth The Juniper Bush won the Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award in 1988. She now divides her time between her childhood home St Anne's on Sea Lancashire and a home in the Yorkshire Dales.

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