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    Alice Davenport

    By Audrey Reimann

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    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 them all to go and fight the Boers. Once again Alice had to sacrifice her own dreams to family responsibilities. But when Captain Davenport returned to Southport, it looked as if Alice’s life was going to begin, at last. For Papa brought with him an invitation to the Victory Ball at Hetherington Hall, and it was there that she encountered the two men who were to dominate her future – Major Frederick Blackshaw, son of Sir Jack Blackshaw, a bullying, violent man whose legacy of betrayal was to haunt Alice for many years – and Karl Rheinhardt, son of an Austro-Hungarian family, who became obsessed with Alice and determined to take her back to Prague with him. As the First World War loomed, it seemed that Alice could lose everything, even her life, but her courage and strength finally carried her triumphantly into a world of her own making.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAudrey Reimann
    Release dateNov 30, 2012
    ISBN9781301080762
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    Audrey Reimann

    I was born Audrey Cooper just before the war and brought up in Macclesfield, Cheshire where I was educated at Macclesfield Grammar School for Girls. My first job was in The District Bank in Macclesfield but soon after I married we moved to Southport in Lancashire and from there to East Lothian in Scotland where I now live. Before I started to write I had a varied career as a nurse, a teacher of needlework in an girls' Approved School and for a few years I ran a restaurant and gift shop. Throughout all this activity I have been a foster mother to more than twenty young people. And always, I wrote - Letters to newspapers, articles for magazines but not until I was fifty and my three children were grown up did I attempt to write a longer work. My first novel, The Moses Child, won a prize at the Scottish Association of Writers annual competition and was published by Transworld as a Bantam hardback and Corgi paperback imprints. Transworld also published my second and third novels - Praise for the Morning and Alice Davenport. My fourth and fifth novels, Wise Child and The Weeping Tree were published by Piatkus. My husband took early retirement and we moved to France where we spent eight happy years, restoring an old farmhouse and getting to know old French Resistance members to research my latest novel, Madame Liberté. Madame Liberté is available as an ebook download on Smashwords. The previous five novels will soon be joining her. All can be found in print versions via Amazon.com. Next,I plan to write about the years of fostering and the lovely young people who came into our care. Many of my foster children keep in touch, one foster daughter lives near to me to this day but I would dearly love to hear from the ones who have lost touch and who remember the happy times we had as a family, in Southport and in Edinburgh.

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