UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · ROMANCE
Suzanne Ebel
Also known as: Suzanne Cecile Ebel Goodwin, Suzanne Ebel
Suzanne Cecile Ebel was born on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of an Irish mother and French father, a interior decorator who drove a Rolls-Royce. She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium. In London, she worked as a journalist at The Times Newspaper, as a public relations director, and from 1950 to 1972 for 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. In 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 was widowed. She died on 28 February 2008. Suzanne published her first novel, Journey from Yesterday in 1963 which won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She wrote contemporary romances under her maiden name Suzanne Ebel, and after her marriage she used her married name Suzanne Goodwin for writing historical romances. She also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne. In 1986, she won the British Travel Association Award for her Guide to London's Riverside in collaboration with Doreen Impey.
This photograph has been hanging on my walls for all the time there is between me, as I sit writing these words at the age of sixty-one, and that little boy squatting on the bottom step on the extreme left.
— from Cousins
Most acclaimed
Sisters
1985
Raina Telgemeier’s #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning companion to Smile! Raina can't wait to be a big sister. But once Amara is born, things aren't quite how she expected them to be. Amara is cute, but she's also a cranky, grouchy baby, and mostly prefers to play by herself. Their relationship doesn't improve much over the years, but when a baby brother enters the picture and later, something doesn't seem right between their parents, they realize they must figure out how to get along. They are sisters, after all.Raina uses her signature humor and charm in both present-day narrative and perfectly placed flashbacks to tell the story of her relationship with her sister, which unfolds during the course of a road trip from their home in San Francisco to a family reunion in Colorado.
Emerald
From the jacket Emerald takes heroine Carol Hamilton to the intriguing, subtly shadowed world of Palm Springs, California, where a secret reaching back into Hollywood history is about to explode with consequences menacing many lives. The names of Monica Arlen and Saxon Scott have spelled magic to Carol since the days when she watched their marvelous old movies being replayed on television. When flight with her small son is Carol's only refuge from her husband's savage threats, her great-aunt Monica Arlen seems her one sanctuary. Instead, she finds unexpected danger, as well as unexpected love. The drama of Monica and Saxon, created so tragically in the past, must be played out again in the present, with Carol the frightened and unwilling catalyst, fighting for her own life, and for the safety and well-being of her son.
Dear Kate
At twenty-four, Kate was beautiful, impulsive -- and a widow with a small son. She had lost her husband when she was just twenty. Now she was alone, living on a large university campus, trying desperately to mend her broken life. But Kate was not entirely alone. She was surrounded by young, eligible men. Men who vied for her attention. There were two university professors who fought for Kate's love. And there was the young, handsome publisher who promised Kate the world if she would be his. And of course, there was always Andrew Lennox, Kate's constant and loyal friend. She had never thought of Andres in any romantic way. He was just a man to whome Kate could always go for advice and companionship. A man who was always there when she needed him. And lately it seemed Kate needed him more and more every day. Kate was suddenly beginning to see Andrew in a different light...