Between Friends

by Audrey Howard

This is the story of three orphaned children, one girl and two boys, growing up in Liverpool before the First World War. The book explores what they do with their lives - lives which are curtailed dramatically by the outbreak of the Great War. Audrey Howard also wrote "The Skylark's Song", "Ambitions", "The Morning Tide" and "The Juniper Bush".

Genres: Historical Romance

544 pages, Hardcover

Published October 15, 1988

About the author

Audrey Howard was born on 1929 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, and grew up in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, where she lives in her childhood home.

Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981, while living in Australia, she wrote the first of her bestselling novels published since 1984. In 1988, her novel The Juniper Bush won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Reviews

[Kay · Rating 3 out of 5]

Review taken from my Blog Post #138 in July 2011, after borrowing the book from the library.

Well worth a read and a 3 Star rating from me. Three friends - Martin Hunter, Tom Fraser and Megan Hughes prospects were vastly improved when they were taken from an orphanage at about 11 to work for the Cook, Mrs Whitley, of one of the emigrant Hotels in Liverpool owned by the Hemmingway Shipping line.

They blossomed, each to find their way eventually, but with the coming of the First World War their bright futures were brought to an abrupt end and threatened to separate them.

Over the years Meg had become more beautiful and alluring and both met fell in love with her. Having grown up with them, she loved them too, but in two very different ways.....she is also to bear the child on one of them. What will her choices be, and the decisions made and how will that effect them all?

Actually, now that I've read quite a few of these books I've noticed that the quite frequently the names of people like the Hemmingways, etc crop up across the them, but in a subtle round about way.

[Meg Vigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely loved this book. My mother gave it to me to read one summer and I couldn't put it down! It is a classic Audrey Howard work and my mother loved it so much she even named her only daughter (yep me) after Meg. I almost feel as if it's my book haha

[Claire · Rating 4 out of 5]

Classic Audrey Howard, a good old-fashioned love story with a slightly dark undertone.

[Ruth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great story of three friends and how love tore them apart and brought them together.