Audrey Reimann: 10 books

When Flora MacDonald jumps from the balcony of an Edinburgh reform school she falls, literally into the arms of Andrew Stewart, a sailor on leave at the outbreak of WW2.They fall in love but the tides of war separate them and Flora, in desperate trouble, travels to Andrew's home on the Ingersley estate....

As far back as Alice Davenport could remember, her Papa had impressed on her that she had duties – to look after her younger brothers and sister when Mama ‘excitable and unwell.’ And when Alice was fourteen and Mama died Papa stressed her duties even more, for as an army doctor he was leaving...

Everyone knows me as Isobel now. I have not used the name I was born with for years, yet within half an hour of arriving in Macclesfield I passed my old enemy in the street and heard her say to the woman on her arm, 'My God! Lily Stanway! What's she come back for?" Silk mills and secrets. All...

Daniel Mackenzie found, hidden in his mother’s wardrobe a signed photograph of a beautiful girl. His mother, Margo tells him that the girl, Françoise is his grandmother who was executed by the Gestapo in the last days of the war. She refuses to say more and Daniel begins to piece together his family...

Will he ever find what he's looking for? Oliver Wainwright is still a boy when he first sets eyes on the fair, delicate Florence – the aristocratic granddaughter of Sir Philip Oldfield. And, determined never to be a servant or follow in his father’s footsteps as a quarry worker on the Oldfield...

Can she give her baby a better life? After the tragic death of her parents, Caroline Shrigley is left with the responsibility of bringing up her younger sister, Jane, as well as running the family business at the Temperance Hotel. Carrie is beginning to think her care-free days are gone forever...

‘You’ll have to sit with the orphans,’ she said. ‘On the bottom table.’ Lily pulled her coat tight. ‘I’m not an orphan. I have a Mam.’ ‘But you haven’t got a dad. Never did have one.’ Growing up in Macclesfield, a town whose cotton and silk industries were hit hard by...

This is a wartime epic that sweeps from Scotland to France, Germany and America. It is a story of secrets, deception and honour which begins in 1978 in Edinburgh where young Daniel Mackenzie is trying to piece together his family history. All that his mother, Margo will tell him is...

Dare she risk her reputation? When the orphaned Flora MacDonald escapes from a harsh reform school she falls - literally - into the arms of Andrew Stewart, a handsome sailor on shore leave. But their blossoming love is interrupted by the outbreak of the Second World War. With Andrew...

Can Alice protect her siblings? Eldest child Alice Davenport has always helped to look after her younger brothers and sister when her Mama was unwell. But when her Mama dies suddenly and her Papa leaves to fight in the war, young Alice is left to care for her family alone. When her Papa...