Audrey Howard (1929 – 26 July 2016) was an English writer of historical

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s. In 1988, her novel ''The Juniper Bush'' won the

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by the

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Biography

Audrey Howard was born on 1929 in

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(now

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), England, and grew up in

St Annes on Sea Lytham St Annes () is a seaside town in the Borough of Fylde in Lancashire, England. It is on the Fylde coast, directly south of Blackpool on the Ribble Estuary. The population of the built-up area at the 2021 census was 42,695. The town is ma ...

, where she continued to live in her childhood home throughout her adult life. Howard 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. Howard died at her St. Annes home on 26 July 2016.

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

# ''Ambitions'' (1986) # ''All the Dear Faces'' (1992) # ''There Is No Parting'' (1993)

Lancashire's Mill Saga

# ''The Mallow Years'' (1990) # ''Shining Threads'' (1991)

Townley Saga

# ''The Silence of Strangers'' (1995) # ''A World of Difference'' (1995)

Andrews Saga

# ''Promises Lost'' (1996) # ''The Shadowed Hills'' (1996)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Audrey 1929 births 2016 deaths Writers from Liverpool English romantic fiction writers RoNA Award winners 20th-century English novelists 21st-century English novelists 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English women writers British women romantic fiction writers English women novelists People from Lytham St Annes Writers from Lancashire