The Shadowed Hills

by Audrey Howard

Katy Andrews, born to wealth and position, has never been thwarted or curbed by her gentle mother or her indulgent father. When she sets her cap at Jamie Hutchinson, she expects the ambitious young farmer to love her in return - but he does not. He falls in love instead with Katy's despised, gentle cousin Chloe Taylor, and Katy thinks she has nothing left to live for.Driven half-mad with grief and horror, she turns to the most dangerous man she could possibly her loutish, brutal cousin Paddy Andrews.The only man who can save her is Jamie Hutchinson. And he is married to another woman.

Genres: Historical Romance, Historical Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Paperback

First published December 12, 1931

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

[Clare O'Beara · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have really enjoyed some of the author's works, such as The Woman From Browhead. This class divide story is too long, however, a word processor novel of the 1990s. A railway magnate has retired and taken over a paper mill, which he modernised to use esparto grass and cotton waste. He has a girl and a boy left at home, and tries to live a genteel life with his wife. The boy is a wastrel and the girl is not supposed to be taught anything, so she rides around the moors and hills. A young cousin comes to join them, apparently discarded by her papa and new mama. We never meet her family again which is extremely strange. Anyway both young women make unsuitable matches, only one of them goes and gets married, and the other, expecting a lout's baby, doesn't. The family are outraged.
There is violence and adult scenes.
I enjoyed the look at the changes in the paper mill. Apparently this follows an earlier book, but it's not necessary to have read it. The ending is not pleasant and seems too contrived. As mentioned, the work is too long, with everything described three times.

[Judy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A sequel to Promises Lost tells what happens to the loves and lives of the next generation.

[Carol Preston · Rating 4 out of 5]

loved it as all her books

[Shanique Nelson · Rating 2 out of 5]

However a good story line, I think it was too drawn out n I really dislike the ending.