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This is the riveting tale of Eleanor Nelson's rocky road to self-fulfilment, through mistakes born of innocence, relationships sparked by convenience, and occassionally passion of breathtaking intensity.

361 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1995

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Suzanne Goodwin

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Suzanne 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.

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Story was ok but characters lack depth, all pretty much one dimensional.
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