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Margaret Kaine,
Author of Friends and Families, Ring of Clay, Rosemary and A Girl of Her Time
An Award winning author!
Born in England, Margaret Kaine has worked both as a secretary and a lecturer. Margaret was born in Stoke-on-Trent, known world-wide as the Potteries. The Potteries is well known in the UK as an area with its own distinctive character and a wealth of industrial history. When Margaret later married, she moved to Leicester.
During Margaret’s career she worked as a medical secretary and a lecturer in Further Education. In the second position, she worked in retraining women to help them get back into the world of work. She taught at an inner city college in deprived areas, where many of the students were single mothers who had never passed an exam before. Margaret found it enormously rewarding to watch their self-confidence grow.
Margaret is an avid reader and some of the writers who influenced her in her early years were Catherine Cookson, Anya Seton, Norah Loftus and Jane Austen.
Margaret has won awards for her previous novels including the 2002 Romantic Novelists Association New Writer’s Award and the 2003 Society of Author’s Sagittarius Prize; both awards were for her first novel, Ring of Clay. She counts these awards as some of the most exciting moments in her life.
Margaret’s hobbies include reading, writing, scrabble and chess, her family and animals. She is married with two children and two grandchildren.
Books
Rosemary
For three women – Rosemary, her mother Beth and grandmother Rose – a single phone call ends years of heartbreak and regret. For Rosemary, alone and determined to find her roots, it is the end of a search begun when she first held her birth certificate, staring in bewilderment at the heading: Certified Copy of Entry from Adopted Children’s Register. But the end of one journey is the beginning of another – one which brings both romance and the nightmare truth about her conception. Rosemary has sprung from a tough soil: the clay of North Staffordshire where her ancestors have worked in The Potteries for generations. Yet will she have the strength to endure what she is about to discover? A glowing, absorbing story that warms the heart and keeps the true spirit of storytelling alive.
New solicitor Joanna Brennan discovers a host of secrets administering the will of Agnes Martin. A few clauses seem mysterious and leave Joanna with a whole lot of questions. On a return visit to Agnes in the hospital Joanna learns she has sadly passed away.
Left with so many unanswered questions Joanna hires a private detective to assist her in her search. She could have never predicted he would cause her so many further complications…
To fulfil Agnes’s bequest Joanna must embark on a journey back to the past - to a long forgotten murder and to a world where nothing is as it seems. As the search continues she discovers a variety of people in her life who provide links to the past.
Tom Kilmartin, Agnes’s son, has known Joanna since they were both children. He does not understand the will but is keen to uncover the secrets it is hiding, some of which may change the course of his life. As Joanna starts to investigate his mother’s past, Tom finds himself uncontrollably drawn her. But is Tom someone she can trust or has she misread the signs?
Moving between a horrific murder in the past and a tissue of lies in the present Joanna must face some horrific truths that will change the course of all their lives.
Sometimes the past won’t stay buried; sometimes the truth must be set free.
