Remember Me

by Sheila Walsh

In the closing months of 1918, Aimee Buchanan, a young doctor scarred by her experiences in the field, has come back home. Exhaustion, fever and a tragic love affair, have left her apathetic - until she meets the Shaw family and sees the plight of the many destitute families in Liverpool... In the fourth year of her apprenticeship, Matty Shaw is unfairly dismissed and goes to work as an alteration hand at an exclusive French Modiste in Bold Street. There she meets her destiny in the person of tiny, volatile Madame Vincente. REMEMBER ME is a warm, often moving novel of two young women, determined to succeed in a difficult world.

585 pages, Hardcover

First published March 27, 1994

About the author

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Born Sheila O'Nions in 1928 in Birmingham, England, UK. During the Second World War, her family moved to Southport, Lancashire, where she met Des Walsh, son of the Thomas Walsh, who had a jewelry store at 39 Chapel Street since 1926. In 1950, Sheila married with Des Walsh, and they had two daughters, Fran Walsh and Tess Walsh. Sheila worked during years in her husband's familiar jewelry store, with her husband, her husband elder brother Gerard and his wife Dorothy[2].

In 1971, Sheila joined the Southport Writers' Circle, and years later, in 1986 was elected life president. In 1980 she became the vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and later elected Chairman (1985-1987).

Her debut novel, The Golden Songbird, won the Netta Muskett award for new writers from the Romantic Novelists' Association, and in 1984, her novel, A Highly Respectable Marriage won the Elizabeth Goudge award.

Sheila Walsh died on 20 January 2009, at 80.