Eileen Ramsay

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    October 1985
  • Latest Book:
    December 2021
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About the Author

Eileen Ainsworth was born on 16 December 1940 in the South-West of Scotland, where she brought up. She wrote since she was seven, but she decided become a teacher. After graduating she went to teach in the USA for a year - and stayed 18 years. She married Ian Ramsay, a Scottish mathematics scientist working on the first moon shots. They had two chidren. They returned to their native Scotland.

Her writing for children and adults has won several awards, including the Constable and Pitlochry trophies from the Scottish Association of Writers and the Romantic Novelists' Association's Elizabeth Goudge Award. In 2004 she was short listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year award. Eileen is an honorary member of the Angus Writers Circle, was vice-president of the Scottish Association of Writers, a member of the Society of Authors and was on the committee of the Scottish branch for about six years and for four was the Secretary, and she was elected the twenty-seventh Chairman (2015-2017) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Full Series List in Order

Flowers of Scotland

1 - Rich Girl, Poor Girl (Feb-2017)
2 - The Farm Girl's Dream (Jun-2017)
3 - A Pinch of Salt (Jul-2017)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • The Mysterious Marquis

    Returned from the Valley of the Kings, Elizabeth Ridgeway enjoys a break from collating her archaeologist papa’s notes by walking in the lovely woods around her Perthshire home. There she discovers a small boy who has fallen into a stream. Since he...

  • The Broken Gate

    Dumfries, Scotland in 1910. Life for Kate Kennedy, the old miner's daughter, was never easy, but for her had it tougher than most. She is just 13 when her mother dies and there after Kate takes over the running of the household and acts as a mother t...

  • The Dominie's Lassie

    Kirsty Robertson, becomes a young school teacher in Scotland. She falls in love with the local landowner's son, Hugh Granville-Baker, who dies in the trenches during World War I. Following the death of her husband, she left alone and pregnant, and sh...

  • Butterflies in December

    In 1886, Lucy Graham rebels against convention and attends university, followed by medical school in Edinburgh. Meanwhile, Rosie Nesbitt, born in a Dundee slum, fights to become a doctor. The lives and loves of these women are traced....

  • The Quality of Mercy

    When his wife refuses to go to India with him, soldier Archie Winterton has an affair with a woman he meets there, who then becomes pregnant. Archie shoots himself, and his baby daughter, Ferelith, is sent to Scotland. Ferelith, born out of wedlock a...

  • Walnut Shell Days

    In the beautiful Scottish landscape of Angus in the early 1900s, Catriona Cameron lives on her father-in-law's farm with her daughter Victoria, and mother. John, her husband, had long ago run away to live abroad but life is steady and happy without h...

  • Harvest of Courage

    Mairi McGloughlin loves the land but as she is a girl the family farm will go to her brother Ian, who wants to be a poet. When Mairi leaves school to look after her widowed father and her brother, life begins to take its plotted course; her father ho...

  • Danger by Gaslight

    After Jamie befriends the wealthy owner of a large city house, several attempts are made on his life. Is there a connection? And can Jamie discover it before tragedy strikes? This is an adventure set in 19th-century urban Scotland....

  • Never Call It Loving

    She would, some day, remember only the joy... Fern Graham has a comfortable life in the Lake District: her husband, Max, dotes on her, Rachel and Charlie, her two bright and loving children, mean everything to her and a career as an author keeps her ...



  • The Wings of Friendship

    In the days between the great wars Jamie, the son of Lord Inchmarnock and Alejandro Medina, a Mexican orphan with a secret past and an amazing musical talent meet at school in Edinburgh. Jamie introduces Alejandro to Catriona Cameron Menmuir who noti...

  • The Feein' Market

    At the Forfar Feein Market beautiful and intelligent Rowena MacFarlane is hired by Angus Campbell to help his wife, Lizzie, with her small sons. But Rowena affects more than the running of the household. Four men love her in their different ways and ...

  • Lace for a Lady

    he Honourable Lydia Carpenter is at her wit’s end. Since her brother, Harry, died in the war against Napoleon Bonaparte, she has been living with her younger sisters and their governess in the family home and desperately trying to make ends meet. T...

  • Someday, Somewhere

    Holly Noble believes she was the most important person in her Aunt Tony's life. When Tony dies, Holly returns to the cottage at Torry Bay in Argyll to claim her inheritance, but what she finds in the attic changes her life forever. A series of beauti...

  • A Way of Forgiving

    The past is never forgotten - but can it ever be forgiven? When a terrible accusation ended her marriage five years ago Sophie Winter was determined she'd never be hurt again. With an exciting job at Scotland's new parliament and a fulfilling social ...

  • The Stuff of Dreams

    Fourteen years ago there was a fire, a scandal. A famous actor died; his lover, a famous actress, was arrested... Now Abbots House hotel has been rebuilt, and is now home for a mysterious woman who hides her face and talks to no one. Rumours fly t...

  • Rainbow's End

    Music is Juliet Crawford's life - her passion and her first true love. Her dream is to be the chief conductor of one of the great orchestras: even the heartbreaking round of conducting competitions has not broken her spirit. And when she loses at an ...

  • The Adventures of Kitty Langlands

    Indulge your love for reading with this fabulous collection of original stories. With over 40 stories to choose from, this stunning collection has something for everyone. Celebrating women's fiction in all its guises, take a look at the latest storie...

  • Love Changes Everything

    Childhood friends, Holly, Jenny and Isla plan to take the world by storm. Holly will be a first-class chef, Jenny a superb nurse, and Isla will become a great singer. Within a few weeks of settling into their new flat in Edinburgh, each girl has a fo...

  • Rich Girl, Poor Girl

    Flowers of Scotland - 1

    1888-1923, Dundee Upper-class Lucy Graham has always been highly intelligent and fiercely independent. When she tells her parents of her plans to follow her dream of becoming a doctor instead of marrying and having children, her mother refuses to ...



  • The Farm Girl's Dream

    Flowers of Scotland - 2

    From the fields of Angus to the shores of Mexico, a family struggles to find their way home. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Rita Bradshaw and Kitty Neale. To young Victoria Cameron, Angus, Scotland is the most beautiful place on earth and she...

  • A Pinch of Salt

    Flowers of Scotland - 3

    Can you love too much and is it wrong to want the best for those you love? Life for a miner's daughter in Scotland, 1910, was never going to be easy, but young Kate Kennedy has it tougher than most. When tragedy overshadows her family, she is forc...

  • The G.I. Bride

    When her beloved father is killed in the Blitz, trainee nurse April Harvey is all alone in the world. Desperate to find the family she craves, she heads to Truro, her mother's hometown. But danger and heartbreak lurk even in Cornwall, and when...

  • The Crofter's Daughter

    A moving and heartwarming World War I saga. For readers of Catherine Cookson and Dilly Court. 'When I'm the farmer,' began Mairi, and then she stopped, for she would never be the farmer. She was a girl.Ever since she was nine years old, Mairi McGloug...

  • The Glasgow Girl at War

    The next heartwarming saga novel from Eileen Ramsay, perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Donna Douglas. 1930s Scotland.Growing up in a convent in Glasgow, Ferelith Gallagher dreams of bigger and better things. With no money behind her, and no fam...

  • A Schoolmistress at War

    Previously published as The Dominie's Lassie.Growing up as a schoolmaster's daughter in rural Scotland, Kirsty Robertson has always dreamt of following in her father's footsteps and becoming a schoolmistress. And when her father dies suddenly, she be...

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Eileen Ramsay has published 25 books.

Eileen Ramsay does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Schoolmistress at War, was published in December 2021.

The first book by Eileen Ramsay, The Mysterious Marquis, was published in October 1985.

Yes. Eileen Ramsay has 1 series.
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