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Lovers
A romantic historical novel set in the 1920s against a background of theatre in London and Paris.Nellie was born in the slums of London, and Earl Robert was born into a noble and ancient family of the realm. Nellie gets a job in a luxurious London brothel, and they met by chance, and witnessed the killing scandal that shook Society. Banished to bohemian Paris they fell in love. The legacy of his ancestors proved too strong. Edwardian England, family honour and crumbling stately home awaited and so did a stunning American heiress. Their passionate affair is ended when he marries Alice. All she had left was ambition that made her the darling of the London stage and she became known to princes, poets, queens and courtiers. They were destined to meet again to share a secret that only lovers can know.
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First published January 1, 1988
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Suzanne Goodwin
20 books15 followersSuzanne Cecile Ebel Goodwin
aka Suzanne Ebel, Suzanne Goodwin, Cecily Shelbourne
Suzanne Cecile Ebel on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of Irish mother and French father, a interior decorator and drove a Rolls-Royce. She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium. In London, she worked as journalist to Newspaper The Times, as public relations director, and from 1950 to 1972 to the advertising agency Young and Rubicam. She married a dentist, with whom she had a son, James, and an adopted daughter, Marigold, but the marriage faltered. On 1947, she met John Goodwin, a former lieutenant in the RNVR and later theatre director, and they had a son, Tim. They finally married in 1971, after she widowed. She died on 28 February 2008.
Suzanne published her first novel in 1963, Journey from Yesterday, that won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She started signed contemporary romances under her maiden name Suzanne Ebel, and after her marriage she used her married name Suzanne Goodwin to singed historical romances, she also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne. In 1986, she won the British Travel Association Award by her Guide to London's Riverside in collaboration with Doreen Impey.
aka Suzanne Ebel, Suzanne Goodwin, Cecily Shelbourne
Suzanne Cecile Ebel on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of Irish mother and French father, a interior decorator and drove a Rolls-Royce. She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium. In London, she worked as journalist to Newspaper The Times, as public relations director, and from 1950 to 1972 to the advertising agency Young and Rubicam. She married a dentist, with whom she had a son, James, and an adopted daughter, Marigold, but the marriage faltered. On 1947, she met John Goodwin, a former lieutenant in the RNVR and later theatre director, and they had a son, Tim. They finally married in 1971, after she widowed. She died on 28 February 2008.
Suzanne published her first novel in 1963, Journey from Yesterday, that won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She started signed contemporary romances under her maiden name Suzanne Ebel, and after her marriage she used her married name Suzanne Goodwin to singed historical romances, she also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne. In 1986, she won the British Travel Association Award by her Guide to London's Riverside in collaboration with Doreen Impey.
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