Annie Murray (writer)

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Annie Murray is an English writer, best known for series about women and children in war time. Her novel, (2007), was nominated for Romantic Historical Novel of the Year for the Romantic Novelists Association. Her latest novel, was published in April 2018.

Biography[]

Annie Murray is an English writer whose first work, , was published in 1995. Raised an only child, she read English at St. John's College, Oxford.^[1] Murray was training to be a nurse when raising children inspired her to pursue writing instead^[2] and early in her career, Murray won the SHE/Granada TV Short Story Competition (1991).^{[3][unreliable source?]} Murray has four children and lives near Reading, United Kingdom.^[4] Murray belongs to the in Birmingham.^{[3][unreliable source?]} Murray is also an active supporter of causes in India and Afghanistan.^[2]

Works[]

Birmingham Series

• Birmingham Blitz (1998)
• Birmingham Friends (aka Kate and Olivia) (1998)
• Birmingham Rose (1995)

Chocolate Girls Series

• Chocolate Girls (2003)
• The Bells of Bournville Green (2008)

Hopscotch Summer Series

• A Hopscotch Summer (2009)
• Soldier Girl (2010)
• All the Days of our Lives (2011)

Narrowboat Girl Series

• The Narrowboat Girl (2001)
• Water Gypsies (2004)

Other Works

• A Wartime Secret (2017)
• Christmas Fireside Stories: A Collection (2014)
• The Doorstep Child (2017)
• Family of Women (2006)
• Meet me under the Clock (2014)
• Miss Purdy's Class (2005)
• My Daughter, My Mother (2012)
• Now the War is Over (2016)
• Orphan of Angel Street (1999)
• Papa Georgio (2012)
• Poppy Day (2000)
• Sisters of Gold (2018)
• War Babies (2015)
• Where Earth Meets Sky (2007)
• The Women of Lilac Street (2015)

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