Hello Saga readers!
My name is Sheila Riley, although you may have heard of me
by the name of Annie Groves, the name I inherited after the original Annie
sadly passed away, after writing the first two books into a four- book series.
I was invited to complete the remaining two books of the series with Only A
Mother Knows and A Christmas Promise, before I went on to create the Empire
Street series with Child of The Mersey and Christmas on The Mersey.
The Orphan Daughter
is the first of the Reckoner’s Row series with my new publishers, Boldwood
Books - a fabulous, independent publishing house with over fifty years of
publishing expertise - so I know I am in good hands. I feel privileged to be
their leading saga author with The Orphan Daughter, which was published on 5th
September and is set in the Mersey Dockland just after ww2.
Sheila Riley's new saga trilogy focuses on the trials and
tribulations of the dockside community of Liverpool’s Reckoner’s Row (Boldwood
Books, 2020) The first in the series, The Orphan Daughter, is set post-WWII when
wartime privations are still in place. Three families: the Kilgaren’s the
McCrea’s and the Harris’s are touched by crime, fears, laughter and tears– but
most of all, love is at the heart of Sheila’s tales of this close-knit
Northern community.
Born in Southport and brought up not far from the river, she was
a ladies hairdresser for over thirty years before her love of writing
encouraged her to put away the scissors and take up the pen. She previously
wrote four bestselling novels under the name Annie Groves.
Married to her knight in rusting armour, Tony, she has three
grown-up children, five adored grandchildren, a majestic German Shepherd called
Max and an insatiably energetic Siberian Husky called Louis.
Facebook @SheilaRileyAuthor
WINTER, LIVERPOOL 1947.
Evie
Kilgaren is a fighter. Abandoned
by her mother and with her father long gone, she is left to raise her siblings
in dockside Liverpool as they battle against the coldest winter on record. But
she is determined to make a life for herself and create a happy home for what’s
left of her family.
Desperate for work, Evie takes a job at the
Tram Tavern under the kindly watch of pub landlady, and pillar of the
community, Connie Sharp. But Connie has problems of her own when her quiet life
of spinsterhood is upturned with the arrival of a mysterious undercover
detective from out of town.
When melting ice reveals a body in the
canal, things take a turn for the worst for the residents of Reckoner’s Row.
Who could be responsible for such a brutal
attack? And can Evie keep her family safe before they strike again?
A gritty,
historical family drama full of laughter and tears from the author of Annie
Groves’ bestsellers including Child of the Mersey and Christmas
on the Mersey. Perfect for fans of Lyn Andrews, Katie Flynn and Nadine
Dorries.
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