Marie Joseph
Personal Information
Description
Marie Joseph was born in Lancashire, England, and was educated at Blackburn High School for Girls. Before her marriage she was in the Civil Service. She began to write at the age of 40, and after a very successful career as a short-story writer went on to write novels, sheuses her Northern background to enrich her bestselling novels. No less than five of her Lancashire based novels have been short-listed for the Romantic Novelist's Association Award during the past few years, and in 1983, Gemini Girls was runner-up. Her novel: A Better World Than This won the 1987 Romantic Novelist's Association Major Award. Down-to-earth characters bring a vivid authenticity to her stories, which were written with both humour and poignancy. She now lives in Middlesex with her husband, a retired chartered Engineer, and they have two married daughters and eight grandchildren.
Books
Lisa Logan
Beautiful Lisa Logan is a survivor. Determined to regain the money and the honor her father lost, Lisa begins her climb up from poverty. Starting as a shopgirl in a fabric store, Lisa uses her natural talents with color and line to launch her to a phenomenal success in haute couture. Ambition and pride drive her on until she is the most successful designer on the London scene--and keep her from the one man in her life who would bring her love and lasting happiness.--P. of cover.
Maggie Craig
A girl walks slowly down the aisle of the Chapel. Defiance is in her eyes and stubborn pride in the bold tilt of her head. As she passes, the women draw aside their skirts and one of them spits, venomously. Maggie Craig has committed the unpardonable sin of becoming pregnant by a man who cannot marry her. Maggie Craig is set in the industrial northwest of England in the last century; a world where the fanatical religious puritanism of the Chapel-goers rages fiercely among a people whose livelihood depends on the grim cotton mills. Into this bleak environment walks Maggie Craig, the beautiful daughter of a country schoolmaster, forced to earn her living in the mills, forced to pay for the rest of her life for the mistake of loving the wrong man. And compelled in the end to make an extraordinary choice before she can be free. Maggie Craig is a story of intense power and poignancy, a tale of passion and pride, of love, jealousy and human greed. But above all, it is the story of a woman of spirit fighting for her own identity and, ultimately, triumphing.
A leaf in the wind
Determined to protect her infant nephew, Elise DuBois will do anything--even masquerade as her dead stepsister Lee. It's almost too easy when T.K. Burke, the baby's paternal uncle, mistakes her for Lee and takes the two of them to his ranch in Texas.