Margaret Maddocks

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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1944
  • Latest Book:
    September 1975
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About the Author

Margaret Kathleen Avern was born on 10 August 1906 in Caversham, Berkshire, England, UK. She was educated at St. Helen's School, Northwood, Middlesex, and in Dresden. On 1937, she married Richard Maddocks, who died on 1970. Published since 1947, she is the only novelist to win four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Larksbrook (1962), The Silver Answer (1965), Thea (1970), and The Moon is Square (1976). In 1977, she wrote her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl. She passed away in 1993.

Margaret Maddocks comments: "Any writer must find it difficult to assess her own work honestly and objectively, so I can only say that I hope my books may be considered as well-written. They appear to be popular among all age groups in the nine countries where they have been published. This is probably because the reader can believe in the characters and the plot holds the interest to the end. They tend to cheer rather than depress."

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Come Lasses and Lads

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  • The Quiet House

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  • Remembered Spring

    After a brief but haunting love affair with Chip Farnham, Jean Fordwich marries the less exciting Philip Latymer, believing Chip and that earlier time of spring to be dead and forgotten. But in Philip's absence abroad, Chip reappears, and together he...

  • Fair Shines the Day // The Open Door

    Reedited as: The Open Door. In the early 1900's, the Fairfield family live at Foxholes Farm on the Welsh border. To Marinda Fairfield, the farm is the whole of her life, though her parents are disturbed by her fondness for books as they consider r...

  • Piper's Tune

    Frances Grove, who has married an American, returns from New York to the village of Overbridge to stay with her brother, Julian, who is a widower and to find him a wife. Her eye falls on attractive Loveday Flayne, who has inherited a cottage in Overb...

  • A Summer Gone

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  • The Frozen Fountain

  • Larksbrook

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    Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1962) by the Romantic Novelists' Association....

  • The Green Grass

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  • November Tree

    After the break-up of her wartime marriage, Clare Staines brings up her daughter Bella alone. When Bella becomes engaged she wishes to meet her father. But Clare is about to remarry and the sudden reappearance of her ex-husband bring difficulties.......

  • The Silver Answer

    Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1965) by the Romantic Novelists' Association....

  • Dance Barefoot

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  • Fool's Enchantment

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  • Thea

    Thea Cranbrook, recently widowed and burdened with the problems of two grown-up daughters, has little time for thinking of her own, but when Harriet leaves her husband and Lizzy falls in love with a man old enough to be her father she finds herself f...

  • The Weathercock

    With both her love affair and her job at an abrupt end, Meg Florey had to get away to re-evaluate her life. Helping Helen Sherdon look after her widowed nephew’s house and three small children seemed the perfect solution. But torn between Hal va...

  • A View of the Sea

  • The Moon is Square

    Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award (1976) by the Romantic Novelists' Association....

Award-Winning Books by Margaret Maddocks

Larksbrook
1962 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year
The Moon is Square
1976 RoNA -- Best Modern Award
The Silver Answer
1965 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year
Thea
1970 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Margaret Maddocks has published 17 books.

Margaret Maddocks does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Moon is Square, was published in September 1975.

The first book by Margaret Maddocks, Come Lasses and Lads, was published in January 1944.

No. Margaret Maddocks does not write books in series.
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