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Annie Groves


Born
in Preston, Lancashire, England, The United Kingdom
November 24, 1946

Died
December 31, 2011

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Genre
Romance, Historical Fiction


Penelope Jones Halsall aka: Caroline Courtney, Penny Jordan, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright

Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 in a Preston, Lancashire, England.
She had been a keen reader from the childhood. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction.

She has earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, she found an agent. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her name to Melinda Wright and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. Howev ...more

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Series by Annie Groves

The District Nurses of Vict... Wartime for the District Nu... Christmas for the District ... A Gift for the District Nurses The District Nurses Make a ... The Three Sisters of Victor... Secrets for the Three Sisters
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London Belles Home for Christmas My Sweet Valentine Only A Mother Knows A Christmas Promise
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Goodnight Sweetheart Some Sunny Day The Grafton Girls As Time Goes By
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Child of the Mersey Christmas on the Mersey The Mersey Daughter Winter On The Mersey
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