|
Interact with Anne Whitfield
|
|
Online Status:
|
Last On: Jul 11, 2009 - 9:57 PM
|
|
Profile Views:
|
1,364
|
|
Member Since:
|
October 13, 2007
|
|
Location:
|
Australia
|
|
ShoutLife Address:
|
shoutlife.com/Annewhitfield
|
|
Website:
|
http://www.annewhitfield.com
|
|
Genre:
|
Historical
|
|
Primary Publishers:
|
Robert Hale Ltd UK, Samhain Publishing,
|
|
Influences:
|
Catherine Cookson, Audrey Howard.
My inspiration came from reading my first 'adult' historical titled, Tilly trotter by Catherine Cookson when I was 14 yrs. I was swept into another time and it gave me the love of historicals ever since.
I've always enjoyed reading from a child. Edith Blyton's books were magical to me and it seemed natural for me to write stories as a child. My head has always been full of characters and settings and plots. It was very logical for me to write novels, but I didn't start being serious about it until I was 25 and at home with my babies. :o)
|
|
Similar To:
|
Catherine Cookson, Barbara Taylor Bradford
|
|
|
Broken Hero by Anne Whitfield (2008)
My WWII romance is now released in ebook!
Blurb
Audrey Pearson's life changed dramatically when WWII broke out and her large home, Twelve Pines on the East Yorkshire coast, became a convalescence home for wounded soldiers. Her life is no longer lavish with entertainment, beautiful clothes and surrounded by a loving family. Soldiers, physically and mentally wounded now fill her home. The smell of disinfectant replaces her mother's perfume and gone are the friends and acquaintances - instead nurses roam the hallways.
Captain Jake Harding, a doctor training in psychiatry arrives at Twelve Pines. Audrey immediately finds herself attracted to the Captain, but he is remote towards her. Puzzled by his cold behaviour, Audrey tries to learn more about the handsome Captain. He reveals that he's lost a wife and baby in childbirth and refuses to ever remarry. However, despite this, Audrey believes she can change his mind and make him aware he doesn't have to spend his life alone.
The ice around Jake's heart begins to melt. For years he has rejected the possibility of finding love again because of the pain it caused him before, but the beautiful Audrey shows him her love and she needs someone to love her in return.
Could he honestly walk away from her, from the love that could be his?
Buy the ebook of Broken Hero
Paperback available in April.
Buy Broken Hero by Anne Whitfield Online
|
|
|
Her Shadowed Heart (2008)
Blurb
Set in Yorkshire England 1864, Her Shadowed Heart is a historical saga of family secrets, betrayals, love, and of new beginnings.
Anna Thornton leads a privileged life, but she's not content. When the dashing Matt Cowan sweeps her off her feet, she thinks her boring existence has changed for the better, only all is not as it seems. Although Matt loves her, he lies and leaves her. Once he has gone she finds she is pregnant.
Heartbroken Anna flees her home with her trusted maid.
She buys a run-down farm in Yorkshire and is determined to make a new life and be independent. She begins again, but events occur that will test her strength and self belief.
An Irishman, O'Mara comes along looking for work. Anna reluctantly hires him, but she's wary of men, of love, and hates to find herself attracted to him, a penniless labourer, so she fights her feelings.
Then, just when Anna believes she is getting on with her new life, the past returns to confront her.
Buy Her Shadowed Heart Online
|
|
|
A Noble Place (2007)
Australia 1850. Phillippa Noble, strong minded, spirited and adventurous, urges and encourages her parents and her twin to emigrate to the distant land of Australia to begin again. In a new country they can put their tainted past behind them, and Pippa can forget the unrequited love she felt for a distant cousin.
Pippa blossoms in the new country and is determined that their horse stud will be the finest in the land. However, circumstances ensure that not all is golden. For every success, she has to bear up under the challenges of bushfire, death, the return of an old love and danger on the goldfields. Her strength is tested as she tries to find the right path to happiness, but it is the near loss of her dearest friend that makes her realise true contentment rests within her grasp and she must not let it go.
Buy A Noble Place Online
|
|
|
To Love Again (2007)
Ellen is running late to catch a train to catch a plane. But as she packs, she wonders if she's doing the right thing. Harry is there at the airport, waiting for her. She also knows he's waiting for much more. He's hoping this holiday together will cement their relationship. Does she want it to? Does she need it? Can she start another chapter of her life, which includes a man again?
A Short story ebook.
Buy To Love Again Online
|
|
|
Gossamer Wings (2006)
Grace Woodruff, the backbone of her troubled family, finds that its disintegration and the return of a lost love strains her emotional stability and sends her on a journey to discover a new path that, along the way, makes her re-evaluate exactly what it is she wants and how she can achieve it, but what will it cost her?
Buy Gossamer Wings Online
|
|
|
Kitty McKenzie (2006)
Suddenly left as the head of the family, Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep her family together against the odds. Evicted from their resplendent home in the fashionable part of York after her parents' deaths, Kitty must fight the legacy of bankruptcy and homelessness to secure a home for her and her siblings. Through sheer willpower and determination she grabs opportunities with both hands from working on a clothes and rag stall in the market to creating a teashop for the wealthy. Her road to happiness is fraught with obstacles of hardship
Buy Kitty McKenzie Online
|
|
|
Kitty McKenzie's Land (2006)
Kitty McKenzie's path has taken her from the slums of York to the inhospitable bush of colonial Australia. Yet, when she believes her dreams will never be attained, she is shown that sometimes life can be even better than what you wish for
1866.
Kitty is gifted land in the far north of New South Wales. Life at the northern property is full of hardships as she learns how to become a successful landowner.
However, Kitty's strength of will and belief in herself gives her the courage most women of her time never realize they have. A decided thorn in her side is the arrogant and patronizing Miles Grayson, owner of the adjourning run. He wants her gone so he can have her land, but he wants her even more.
Buy Kitty McKenzie's Land Online
|
|
 |
|
Hi, I'm an award winning Australian author, married with three children. I live in a beautiful part of New South Wales. My parents arrived in Australia from Yorkshire in 1967.
My passions, apart from writing, are reading, researching, genealogy, collecting Victorian diaries, roaming historical sites, buying books and gardening.
I have written eight historical novels, one contemporary novel and six short stories. My historicals are mainly set in Victorian/Edwardian era in England and Australia and my short stories, for some reason, are all modern set. :o)
My website
http://www.annewhitfield.com
My blog
http://annewhitfield.blogspot.com
|
|
Broken Hero - excerpt
|
11/18/2008 - 1:52 PM
|
|
Broken Hero is my historical romance set in England during World War II.
Blurb
Blurb
Audrey Pearson's life changed dramatically when WWII broke out and her large home, Twelve Pines on the East Yorkshire coast, became a convalescence home ...
(login or sign up to read more)
|
|
3 views
-
0 replies
|
|
|
Excerpt from Gossamer Wings
|
10/14/2008 - 5:40 PM
|
|
Blurb.
Leeds, England 1870. Grace Woodruff, the backbone of her troubled family, finds that its disintegration and the return of a lost love strains her emotional stability and sends her on a journey to discover a new path that, along the way, m...
(login or sign up to read more)
|
|
3 views
-
0 replies
|
|
|
Excerpt from Her Shadowed Heart
|
7/06/2008 - 9:49 PM
|
|
Set in Yorkshire England 1864, Her Shadowed Heart is a historical saga of family secrets, betrayals, love, and of new beginnings.
Blurb
Anna Thornton leads a privileged life, but she's not content. When the dashing Matt Cowan sweeps her off her f...
(login or sign up to read more)
|
|
0 views
-
0 replies
|
|
|
Kitty McKenzie excerpt
|
6/09/2008 - 8:55 PM
|
|
Here is an excerpt of my Victorian historical, Kitty McKenzie, which is available from Amazon.com
Blurb
1864 - Suddenly left as the head of the family, Kitty McKenzie must find her inner strength to keep her family together against the odds. E...
(login or sign up to read more)
|
|
2 views
-
0 replies
|
|
|
Her Shadowed Heart out now!
|
5/21/2008 - 6:06 PM
|
|
Hello!
I'm excited to announce my latest release, a Victorian historical titled, Her Shadowed Heart.
Blurb
Set in Yorkshire England 1864, Her Shadowed Heart is a historical saga of family secrets, betrayals, love, and of new beginnings.
Ann...
(login or sign up to read more)
|
|
0 views
-
0 replies
|
|
|
|
Recent Guestbook Comments
|
|
|
