Suzanne Goodwin

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  • Bibliography:
    15 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1983
  • Latest Book:
    February 2001
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About the Author

Suzanne Cecile Ebel on 27 September 1916 in Sutton, Surrey, London, England, UK, of Irish mother and French father, a interior decorator and drove a Rolls-Royce. She was educated at Roman Catholic schools in England and Belgium. In London, she worked as journalist to Newspaper The Times, as public relations director, and from 1950 to 1972 to the advertising agency Young and Rubicam. She married a dentist, with whom she had a son, James, and an adopted daughter, Marigold, but the marriage faltered. On 1947, she met John Goodwin, a former lieutenant in the RNVR and later theatre director, and they had a son, Tim. They finally married in 1971, after she widowed. She died on 28 February 2008.

Suzanne published her first novel in 1963, Journey from Yesterday, that won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She started signed contemporary romances under her maiden name Suzanne Ebel, and after her marriage she used her married name Suzanne Goodwin to singed historical romances, she also used the pseudonym of Cecily Shelbourne. In 1986, she won the British Travel Association Award by her Guide to London's Riverside in collaboration with Doreen Impey.

Multi-Author Series List

Love on Call

A Change of Season (Feb-1991)

Book List in Order: 15 titles

  • Floodtide

    Stella Vrendenburg grew to womanhood in a land torn apart by the Boer War, but the thunder and flash of guns on the distant horizon did not trouble her until her sixteenth year. When young Stella comes across a wounded English soldier, Rupert Flood C...

  • Sisters

    When every day was precious... Americans, New Zealanders, Free French and Poles -- they were all attracted to the Tyrrell girls. There was Elaine, the strong and sensible one; the war was only a few weeks old when she married the man she adored - ...

  • Cousins

    Passion, conflict, and the strength of family ties are at the heart of this novel which captures the triumphs, tragedies, and internal conflicts of the Bidwell family, Devonshire gentry amidst a set of compelling and highly individual characters...

  • Daughters

    Catherine and Sara share the same father and that is all they share. Catherine, a reserved English aristocrat, grew up at her family's country estate in the years before the First World War. Sara, a passionate red headed beauty, lived with her selfis...

  • Lovers

    A romantic historical novel set in the 1920s against a background of theatre in London and Paris. Nellie was born in the slums of London, and Earl Robert was born into a noble and ancient family of the realm. Nellie gets a job in a luxurious Londo...

  • To Love a Hero

    Set in the 1943-49 period, the death of her mother leads Sorrel into discovery of family mysteries. Why did Lord Martyn give her mother an allowance? Why does his wife dislike her? She picks up the pieces of her life after her loss by joining the WRN...

  • A Change of Season

    Love on Call

    Lisa and her brother Charles return penniless from the exotic Far East to drab post-war torn London in 1948. However, their lives improve when they move to their home town of Stratford. But they become involved in dramas of power, passion, betrayal,...

  • The Rising Storm

    The search that Roz undertakes to find her missing grandmother, Sophie, leads her into discoveries about Sophie's intriguing and wayward past and forces Roz to confront her feelings for Michael, who is helping her with the search...

  • While the Music Lasts

    Life for the four Bryant sisters--Viv, Claire, Julie, and Isobel--is not as carefree as it might be in the Swinging Twenties, because they grew up in a modest way by their divorced mother. Their lives changed when they inherit an enormous amount of m...



  • The Difference

    Eleanor finds herself pregnant by an old friend, Hugo, while at Oxford. The couple marry and settle in Brazil where Eleanor is tempted into a passionate affair with a handsome Brazilian. She realizes too late how important her husband and child are t...

  • A Rising Star

    Candy Waring had two men in her life.... First there was her father, Robert Waring, the famous and handsome actor of the British theatre. A demanding man who was determined to see Candy follow in his footsteps. And then there was Ben. A young, ...

  • Sheer Chance

    Avril Brett has opted out of the sexual revolution and settled into a loveless marriage and a dead-end job. Dominated by her husband, who has been having affairs since six months into their marriage, when he is posted to St Vincent, she has a brief a...

  • Starstruck

    Original title: A Most Auspicious Star (1969). As the daughter of a famous actor, beautiful Tamara Waring lands a role in his new production and they set off to start filming in Italy. Only the scriptwriter doesn't think she is right for the role....

  • One Bright Star

    When struggling actress Julie Woods meets stage designer Daniel, they are strongly attracted. Then Julie's talents are noticed by the charismatic actor Sir Robert Waring. Overwhelmed by her good fortune, Julie's new venture threatens to overcome ever...

  • French Leave

    France, 1944: in the closing days of the Nazi Occupation, a beautiful young Englishwoman arrives in the war-torn town of Bourg-en-Bresse to work as an interpreter. Unbeknownst to her superiors, though, the spirited Jill Sinclair also plans to search ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Suzanne Goodwin has published 15 books.

Suzanne Goodwin does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, French Leave, was published in February 2001.

The first book by Suzanne Goodwin, Floodtide, was published in May 1983.

No. Suzanne Goodwin does not write books in series.
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