Lorimers in Love (The Lorimer Chronicles Book 4)

'FORGET THE THORN BIRDS ... THIS ROMPING HISTORICAL EPIC IS FLUENT AND ENTERTAINING' LancashireEvening PostIn the years following the First World War, the lives of the Lorimers centre on Blaize, Alexa Lorimer's stately home beside the Thames.Living on the peaceful estate and sharing the long years of her widowhood is Matthew Lorimer, the man she loves but can never marry, and her sister Margaret, whose love and dedication has held the family together.Abroad, there are Lorimers scattered across the world - in Russia, India, Malaya and Hollywood - but all are drawn back to Blaize by their devotion to Margaret.Among the younger generation, Frisca changes from a bouncing schoolgirl into a talented dancer and two of her cousins are overwhelmed by her beauty and glamour, while Barbary, orphaned and shy, feels the exquisite pain of first love.Kate Lorimer sees the ideals which kept her in Russia after the Revolution betrayed and loses her lover in one of Stalin's purges. Her daughter, Ilsa, and the English relatives she has never met are all in different ways victims of the Second World War: in concentration camps, air raids, prisoner-of-war camps or simply through separation.Alexa, indomitable, survives, and the doors of Blaize remain open to the children who will keep the family alive.Lorimers in Love is the fourth book in the gripping Lorimer Chronicles series.Readers love Anne Melville:'Fast and meaty ... with pain and grief fairly balanced with hope and joy in roughly equal proportions' British Book News'Exciting, the characters lively and the sense of period meticulous' Irish Times'The book leaves a century of scope ahead for saga addicts' Books'There are moments in life when there is nothing like a good juicy saga read and Anne Melville is a most competent and engaging mistress of the craft' Oxford Today'Engaging and readable' Financial Times'The story is exciting, the characters lively and the sense of period meticulous' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Powerful stuff for those who like family intrigues' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'A novel of character and great compassion' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Anne Melville has the ability to write about history with an unobtrusive knowledge, while keeping the action going and adding romance that doesn't cloy'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐***Anne Melville is a pseudonym of Margaret Potter, the daughter of the author and lecturer Bernard Newman and the wife of Jeremy Potter, novelist and historian. She was educated at Harrow County School for girls and gained a BA and MA from St. Hugh's College, Oxford. Before writing, she worked a variety of jobs including teaching in Egypt, editing a children's magazine in London, and advising the Citizen's Advice Bureau in Twickenham. She published her first novel as Margaret Newman, a mystery novel entitled Murder to Music. Newman continued publishing novels until her death in 1998, under a variety of pseudonyms.