Maureen Lee

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  • Bibliography:
    31 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1983
  • Latest Book:
    August 2020
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About the Author

Maureen Lee was born in Bootle, England, UK, near Liverpool during the World War II. She attended Commercial College and became a shorthand typist. She married Richard, and they had three sons, now adults. The last years the marriage lives in Colchester, Essex.

During years, she published over one hundred and fifty short-stories, before published her first novel Lila in 1983. She continued published dramatic historical sagas mainly setting in Liverpool since 1994. In 2000, her novel Dancing in the Dark won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Full Series List in Order

Pearl Street

1 - Lights Out Liverpool (Jun-1995)
2 - Put Out the Fires (Aug-1996)
3 - Through the Storm (Jul-1997)

Book List in Order: 31 titles

  • Lila

    Desire and revenge were at war in her heart... When Lila is exiled to Australia on a false charge of theft, she is helped by a buccaneer to return to London and have her revenge....

  • Stepping Stones

    One April night in 1931 in Bootle, Liverpool little Lizzie O'Brien is born. She is her mother's first daughter - a tiny cuckoo in a nest of strapping blond boys. But her happiness is overshadowed by her father Tom, a drunk, and her mother Kitty, who ...

  • Lights Out Liverpool

    Pearl Street - 1

    It is 1939, as Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour. The war touches each of them in a different way: for Annie Poulson, a widow, it means never-ending wo...

  • Put Out the Fires

    Pearl Street - 2

    September 1940 -- the cruellest year of war for Britain’s civilians as the Luftwaffe mercilessly blitz their cities. In Pearl Street, near to Liverpool’s vital docks, families struggle to cope the best they can. A nasty surprise for ever-cheerfu...

  • Through the Storm

    Pearl Street - 3

    Two years of war have taken a terrible toll on Pearl Street, Liverpool. German bombs have reduced some houses to rubble and most of the inhabitants have lost friends and family. While sisters Eileen and Sheila share the anxious burden of absent husba...

  • Annie // Liverpool Annie

    Annie Harrison has a difficult childhood and she eventually goes to live in the Grand Hotel with a rich school friend. Forced to make her own way in 1960s Liverpool, her life is full of excitement as she discovers rock and roll and hears the Beatles ...

  • Dancing In the Dark

    Millie Cameron is at first furious when she has to sort through the belongings of her recently deceased aunt Flo, but her interest is soon awakened. Finding photographs, letters and newspaper cuttings, she embarks on a journey to a secret past which ...

  • The Girl from Barefoot House

    It is 1938, and little Josie Flynn is sitting at the top of the stairs outside her attic room in Liverpool. Despite the cold on the landing and the thinness of her nightie, she is completely happy. Her beautiful prostitute mother is nearby - and this...

  • Laceys of Liverpool // Lacey's of Liverpool

    A compelling story of deep emotion and tangled family relationships that hide a dreadful secret. Pretty Alice Lacey couldn't be more different from her sister-in-law, bitter, ambitious Cora. Alice is married to John, Cora to his hapless younger broth...



  • The House by Princes Park

    The story of one woman's remarkable life - hardship, heartbreak, and above all huge passion and inner resources. The product of an affair between a nurse and an injured American soldier during the Great War, Ruby O'Hagan's early life is in an orphana...

  • Three Great Novels

    LIGHTS OUT LIVERPOOL, PUT OUT THE FIRES and THROUGH THE STORM are linked novels which cover the war years from 1939 to 1941. The inhabitants of Pearl Street in Bootle, Liverpool share their worries and anguish as they cope with life without their son...

  • Lime Street Blues

    It is the heady sixties in Liverpool, and the Flowers, the Baileys and the McDowds are three very different families bound together by music. The children are determined to be part of the glamour that surrounds the city, so when Sean, Lachlan and Max...

  • Queen of the Mersey

    Liverpool, 1939. The Second World War is about to start when pretty Laura Oliver meets Queenie Todd. Laura is twenty-one and happily married to dashing Roddy. At 14, Queenie lacks Laura's confidence, and has been deserted by her good-time mother. The...

  • The Old House On the Corner

    A moving contemporary novel set in Liverpool about the new residents of Victoria SquareVictoria Macara lives in the old house on the corner. When the land is sold, she finds herself surrounded by new properties called Victoria Square.The newcomers in...

  • The September Girls

    On a rainy September night in 1920, Brenna Caffrey, her husband and their two young sons arrive at Liverpool docks from Ireland. They have come in search of a better life, but there is no one to meet them, as had been arranged, and they have nowhere ...

  • Kitty and Her Sisters

    At the age of nineteen, Kitty McCarthy has decided she is going to live a life less ordinary - although she doesn't know quite how to go about it. What she does know is that she doesn't want to get married and raise children in Liverpool like her eld...

  • A Dream Come True

    From Sunday Times bestselling author Maureen Lee - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.Until that fateful day in Brighton, Maggie had thought she would never be happy again...Maggie's once-happy marriage has turned sour, le...

  • The Leaving of Liverpool

    Two sisters; one heartbreaking mistake; a lifetime apartIt is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters - Mollie and Annemarie - escape from their home in a tiny Irish village. Their beloved mother has died and the girls have suffered sh...

  • Mother of Pearl

    A tragedy tears a family apart - a superb novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL.Pretty Amy Curran was just eighteen years old when she met Barney Patterson, the love of her life, on Southport Pier in 1939. Their r...



  • Nothing Lasts Forever

    Brodie Logan's idyllic life with her once-loving husband, Colin, seems to have come to an end. So when she lets out the big house in Liverpool with its enchanting garden where she grew up, she decides to leave Colin and share the house with the other...

  • The Kiss

    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...

  • Martha's Journey

    Liverpool 1915. Martha Rossi lives in a tenement with her husband and their five children. Despite working all the hours she can, the family don't have much to get by on. When Martha's fourteen-year-old son, Joe, proudly enlists to fight for his coun...

  • Au Revoir Liverpool

    A gripping Second World War novel, from the bestselling author of NOTHING LASTS FOREVER and THE LEAVING OF LIVERPOOL.Liverpool, 1937. Jessica is married to Bertie, a mean, patronising man who she has stayed with purely for the sake of her two young c...

  • Amy's Diary

    Set during the Second World War in Liverpool, this is a wonderful Maureen Lee tale - written specially for the World Book Day Quick Reads promotion.On 3 September 1939, Amy Browning decided to start writing a diary. It was a momentous day for so many...

  • After the War Is Over

    A heart-warming tale set in Liverpool and London during the post-war years, from bestselling author Maureen Lee'Queen of saga writing' My WeeklyLiverpool, 1945. Three women, firm friends, return home from the war and try to fit back into their old li...

  • Flora and Grace

    The Second World War - a mother must make a heart-breaking sacrifice in order to save her child...'Maureen Lee weaves intrigue, love and warmth into every page' MY WEEKLY'A fine writer' EVENING TELEGRAPH1944. It is spring, late morning, when Flora's ...

  • The Seven Streets of Liverpool

    Liverpool, 1942. As the residents of Pearl Street prepare for Christmas, adversity and tragedy bring them ever closer together. A powerful new saga from the bestselling author of AFTER THE WAR IS OVER.Eileen is worried about the growing distance betw...

  • Dusk

    A gripping ebook-exclusive suspense novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Maureen Lee.Sixteen years ago, summer went wrong...As school closed and the long summer break begins, lifelong friends Norah and Daisy are looking forward to one last sum...

  • The Kelly Sisters

    It should have been the start of a brand new life in Liverpool...Patricia, Tara and Aideen couldn't be more excited about leaving Dublin with their father and heading for a new life in Liverpool. Yet it soon becomes clear that all is not as it seems...



  • Violet's Children

    The brand new novel from queen of the saga and No. 1 bestselling author, Maureen Lee.In times of trouble, family is all you need...Liverpool, 1950. They say you can choose your friends, but you can't choose your family. Yet when Violet Duffy is asked...

  • Goodbye Liverpool

    A heartbreaking story of wartime love, loss and courage, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller and queen of saga, Maureen Lee.

    Liverpool, 1937. Trapped in a loveless marriage, Jessica endures her husband's petty cruelty for the sake of her two y...

Award-Winning Books by Maureen Lee

Dancing In the Dark
2000 RoNA -- Romantic Novel of the Year


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Maureen Lee has published 31 books.

Maureen Lee does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Goodbye Liverpool, was published in August 2020.

The first book by Maureen Lee, Lila, was published in May 1983.

Yes. Maureen Lee has 1 series.
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