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Not a Bird Will Sing
NOT A BIRD WILL SING
- GenresHistorical Romance
512 pages, Paperback
First published April 16, 1998
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Audrey Howard
63 books51 followersAudrey 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.
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.
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August 3, 2013
Review taken from my Blog Post #131 in June 2011, after I borrowed the book from the library.
Poppy Appleton is taken from her squalid cottage at a very young age to live with the Farmer's Wife, Eliza Goodall, and become the dairy maid at Long Reach Farm. However, daughterless Eliza has formed a strong bond with the lovely child and brings her up to also be a lady and able to take over as Mistress of the farm one day.
When she was 14 she helped a runaway boy from the prison ship, Conn MacConnell, and fell completely in love with him. Once back on his feet he returns to his native Scotland to seek out his maternal Grandfather, promising to write to Poppy.
Many years later Eliza, on her death bed, makes Poppy promise to marry her son Richard. Having given up hope of ever hearing from Conn she agrees. A terrible accident on their wedding night leaves Richard paralysed and Poppy's life in tatters.
Poppy being what she is though picks herself up and carries on, but is completely unprepared for the effect that Conn's appearance back in her life brings. She is then torn between loyalty and a deep deep love for this man.
A 4 **** Star read.
Poppy Appleton is taken from her squalid cottage at a very young age to live with the Farmer's Wife, Eliza Goodall, and become the dairy maid at Long Reach Farm. However, daughterless Eliza has formed a strong bond with the lovely child and brings her up to also be a lady and able to take over as Mistress of the farm one day.
When she was 14 she helped a runaway boy from the prison ship, Conn MacConnell, and fell completely in love with him. Once back on his feet he returns to his native Scotland to seek out his maternal Grandfather, promising to write to Poppy.
Many years later Eliza, on her death bed, makes Poppy promise to marry her son Richard. Having given up hope of ever hearing from Conn she agrees. A terrible accident on their wedding night leaves Richard paralysed and Poppy's life in tatters.
Poppy being what she is though picks herself up and carries on, but is completely unprepared for the effect that Conn's appearance back in her life brings. She is then torn between loyalty and a deep deep love for this man.
A 4 **** Star read.
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