Charlotte Vale Allen

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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1975
  • Latest Book:
    August 2012
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About the Author

Charlotte Vale-Allen was born in Toronto and lived in England from 1961 to 1964 where she worked as a television actress and singer. She returned to Toronto briefly, performing as a singer and in cabaret revues until she emigrated to the United States in 1966. Shortly after her marriage to Walter Allen in 1970 she began writing and sold her first novel Love Life in 1974. Prior to this book's publication she contracted to do a series of paperback originals for Warner Books, with the result that in 1976 three of her books appeared in print.

Her autobiography, the acclaimed Daddy's Girl, was actually the first book she wrote but in 1971 it was deemed too controversial by the editors who read it. It wasn't until 1980 that the groundbreaking book was finally published.

One of Canada's most successful novelists, with over seven million copies sold of her 30+ novels, Ms. Allen's books have been published in all English-speaking countries, in Braille, and have been translated into more than 20 languages.

Full Series List in Order

Related Books

1 - Fresh Air (Apr-2003)
2 - Sudden Moves (Apr-2004)

Related Books - 2

1 - Hidden Meanings (Jun-1985)
2 - Another Kind of Magic (Jun-1977)

Book List in Order: 37 titles

  • Love Life

    Helen's life was a tapestry of love, from the first fierce fulfillment of sexual desire, to the ultimate generosity of true friendship, to the joy of the child she had never hoped to have. And always, throughout the rich years of resounding happin...

  • Sweeter Music

    In the spotlight, she was a woman singing--drawing listeners into her soul. But in the sunlight, she was a woman alone. And the arms of anonymous men in interchangeable she sought solace in towns. Looking for someone to give her the identity that co...

  • Gentle Stranger

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    She met him on the most terrible day of her life, and in the shadows cast by violence, they made love. They shared a physical passion that was solace and tenderness, a priceless gift two shaken people gave each other in kindness. But was this love fo...

  • Another Kind of Magic

    Related Books - 2 - 2

    When Wynne Shipton and Tony Wakeman found each other in Hidden Meanings, their story had found an almost perfect ending. But it was not a happy ending for Tamara-- the daughter Wynne had been forced to give up. Tamara was a woman who had never really...

  • Mixed Emotions

    She liked him, yet she didn't. Staring at her with those demanding eyes, then sweeping her off from the party, commandeering her for himself. But she had to admit that it was exhilarating to have such a witty, sophisticated man crazy to marry her--ri...

  • Running Away

    WOMAN ON A TIGHTROPE Isabel Gary. 40 years old. Beautiful. Talented. And tormented... ... by the memory of a husband who had died so tragically early... by the problem of a teenage daughter hellbent on a course of self-destruction ... by the de...

  • Meet Me in Time

    LISETTE AND RAY - The poet and the TV star. The soft sweet Frenchwoman and her English protector, both forever in love. GABY - The eldest daughter, the muscian. Jealous and raging. DANA - The son, the writer. Successful at his craft, always s...

  • Julia's Sister

    Julia's Sister That's what Annabel had been all her life. Quiet sister to the vivacious Julia. Plain sister to the beautiful Julia. Plodding sister to the brilliantly successful Julia. The stay-at-home sister who waited up to hear popular Julia's ...

  • Becoming

    Sidonie Graham got married and allowed her husband Frank to be the center of her universe -- until the day she suddenly realized she was overweight, unhappy, and desperate to be free. At the urging of her bold, outspoken Aunt Claudia, Sidonie begins ...



  • Memories

    ALISON The bombs destroying London also shattered her family, making a stranger of the man she called her husband HILARY The daughter who had never really been a child became a mother overnight, trapped in a magnificent, hopeless marriage DIA...

  • Gifts of Love

    GILLIAN BLAKE-- A WOMAN who was a dazzling success in a man's world as a bold and brilliant architect. A WOMAN who in her personal life kept carefully clear of intimate contact with other people. A WOMAN who sought physical fulfillment with...

  • Acts of Kindness

    What are the boundaries of love, of human emotion? For Eugenie Elliott who loses her lover and her ability to speak above a whisper all in one terrible moment, this question would appear to have no answer. Everything is gone, except for the baby she ...

  • Moments of Meaning

    In a panic, Lyle Maxwell takes the first flight out of Sydney and winds up in Perth, spending her days in the hotel swimming pool, trying to deal with the horror of her recent experiences with the man she had come to Australia to marry. Jimmy Ballard...

  • Times of Triumph

    Beautiful Leonie Benedict was young, alone, and desperately trying not to be afraid when she arrived in pre-World War I New York. Behind her was her shattering adulterous love affair with Gray Marlowe. Ahead, the birth of an illegitimate child and a ...

  • Promises

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    They were both still kids when Jess promised her dying father that she would take care of her sister Tillie, no matter what. Even if it meant selling her body that was just trembling on the verge of womanhood. Even if it meant sacrificing her own cha...

  • Destinies

    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Jamie was a married man who left home and career for a life on the stage. Sherrill was a young actress destined for stardom. They met. They fell in love. They didn't know it until it was too late. Their lifelong journey into each other's arms was to ...

  • Daddy's Girl

    After I had been through many versions of the manuscript (written over almost a decade) I decided that for this book to have validity it would be necessary not only to show the past but also to give a picture of the present-illustrating how the event...

  • Pieces of Dreams

    Strangers Caley Burrell had her lift all mapped out. She knew who she would love, who she would marry, where they would live and how many children they would have. Martin Maddox had a devoted wife and two sons. He was going to live happily ever...

  • Hidden Meanings

    Related Books - 2 - 1

    Wynne Shipton is the woman who lives in the small house at the corner. Tony Wakeman lives in the large, imposing house across the road. They are people who have merely nodded politely in passing -- until the day Tony accepts a delivery for his neighb...



  • Matters of the Heart

    They were the unforgettable, passionate men and women bound together by an era of turmoil and tears, by ties of blood and passion, by a search for love, happiness and fulfillment... FRANCES ... A beautiful, proud Englishwoman torn between her drea...

  • TimeSteps

    It was the Great Depression, a time of breadlines and of terrible, widespread poverty. But it was also a time when the movies--particularly musicals--were a source of comfort and refuge and entertainment for millions. It was a time when a gifted youn...

  • Illusions

    When Stanleigh Dunn, an award-winning author of children's books notable for her complexly intricate illustrations, meets Daniel Goddard on a flight to London, they are each (although unknown to the other) in the grip of a terrible loss. Their chance...

  • Dream Train

    Enter the elegant and mysterious world of the Orient Express... It's a plum assignment for photojournalist Joanne James, a ride on the Orient-Express with a stop in Venice for five days at the exclusive Cipriani Hotel -- all expenses paid. Yet...

  • Night Magic

    MAGIC NIGHT IS the story of a cat who finds something that does not belong in his people's house - something flittery and skittery that turns the rest of the night mysterious and magical. What could it want? Hurricane the cat is going to find out!...

  • Painted Lives

    HE WAS THE IDOL OF THE ART WORLD. AND THE MYSTERY OF THE CENTURY. Mattie Sylvester, widow of one of America's most celebrated painters, spends most of her time gazing out to sea on an island off the Atlantic Coast, remembering. Her new secretary,...

  • Leftover Dreams

    The story starts in the Toronto of the 1950's, where you could still swim at Sunnyside Beach and most women stayed home to raise their families. Here you will meet two unforgettable sisters--Faye and Louise Parker who, against all odds, survive the a...

  • Dreaming in Color

    Bobby Salton is a woman on the run from a violent marriage. With her six-year-old daughter, she finds refuge in a rambling house on the Connecticut shore. Hired as a live-in companion to Alma Ogilvie, Bobby helps the retired headmistress regain h...

  • Intimate Friends

    After her husband's suicide, TV producer Lynne Craig's world is upended. There is no evident reason for this act, and she's left to try to come to terms with her husband's death while continuing to function in the cutthroat world of 1960's television...

  • Somebody's Baby

    She was somebody's baby, but whose? A woman's entire life is turned upside down by her mother's deathbed confession: Snow Devane was stolen as an infant and is someone else's child. At thirty-one. Snow believes she has everything she wants--a s...



  • Claudia's Shadow

    As her sister's sole heir, Rowena Graham moves into Claudia's house - their old family home - and begins to sort out her sister's affairs. She also steps in as manager of Claudia's restaurant and gradually leaves her former life and successful career...

  • Mood Indigo

    It is late winter 1934 in Manhattan when DeeDee Carlson dies after falling from the balcony of her apartment at the Ansonia. Her boyfriend, Chip Stevenson, begs Honoria Barlow-his late mother's closest friend, and his, as well-to look into the circum...

  • Parting Gifts

    When Kyra Latimer loses her husband to a freak accident in Manhattan, she can't absorb the fact of his absence and can't imagine how she'll be able to move into the future without him. But on the day of his funeral, the unimaginable happens. A yo...

  • Grace Notes

    Early in her marriage, Grace Loring became the victim of her husband's sudden, unpredictable rages. Taking her infant daughter and a few belongings, Grace got into her car and fled to the safety of her brother Gus's home in Vermont. Now Grace is a...

  • Fresh Air

    Related Books - 1

    For twenty-seven years Lucinda Hunter, daughter of the acclaimed film star Lily Hunter, has been a virtual recluse. Alone in the Connecticut farmhouse that was once her mothers's, Lucinda's life has become a small thing. Everything she wants or needs...

  • The Marmalade Man

  • Sudden Moves

    Related Books - 2

    After years of self-imposed reclusiveness, Lucinda Hunter has started moving out into the world. She has found her family and her isolation has ended, largely thanks to Katanya Taylor, who ventured into her garden five years earlier and beckoned t...

  • Where Is the Baby?

    When little Humaby escapes from a locked van and runs for help, she saves herself as well as a newly stolen baby girl. But, given into the care of child psychiatrist Dr Stefan Lazarus, the girl, renamed Faith, grows up under the glare of an unwelcome...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Charlotte Vale Allen has published 37 books.

Charlotte Vale Allen does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Where Is the Baby?, was published in August 2012.

The first book by Charlotte Vale Allen, Love Life, was published in December 1975.

Yes. Charlotte Vale Allen has 2 series.
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