Claire Lorrimer

Chantal is exquisite, beguiling and volatile. Torn from the dazzling salons and glittering balls of aristocratic London, Chantal finds herself caught in a gathering maelstrom of wild and dangerous adventure.  Book 3 of series.

All Charlotte's dreams for her future are dashed when her father is imprisoned. Verity, her friend, rescues her, but will life on a country estate make up for the dreams that can never come true?

Harriet is totally disillusioned by her marriage to Tony, but determined to stay loyal to her vows. Until, that is, Paul comes back into her life, just as she needs a friend.

At fifteen, Mavreen falls in love with the Vicomte Gerard de Valle. But believing him lost to her she enters a loveless marriage arranged by her father. When her husband dies Mavreen goes in search of the man she loves across the snowy battlefields of Russia.  Book 1 of series.

Ortolans was a magnificent house hiding a secret for four hundred years. This is the story of three remarkable women who each played a vital role during its long and violent history.

The year is 1902. The love affair between a young aristocrat and the daughter of his tutor ends in disgrace. He is dispatched to Europe and she is left behind, pregnant and ruined. Her child, Harry, is fostered by the Pritchetts, a humble and caring family. Years later nothing can prepare Harry for the revelation of his father's true identity.

Beautiful and reckless like her mother, Tamarisk is drawn to Sir Peregrine. When he rejects her she disgraces herself with a notorious poet, though her love for Peregrine still burns. Book 2 of series.

Claire Lorimer has been a novelist since the war, when, armed with an old typewriter and a vivid imagination she started to write. In her autobiography she describes her childhood when her mother entertained the literati of the day at country house parties, and continues with the story of a fascinating life.