As an Indie Author, Madalyn has successfully published seven novels: Foxden Acres, Applause, China Blue, and The 9:45 To Bletchley are set during WW2 and tell the wartime stories of Bess, Margot, Claire, and Ena Dudley. Foxden Hotel and Chasing Ghosts are post war. There Is No Going Home is set in 1958.
Madalyn is a member of The Society of Authors, the Romantic Novelists Association and Equity. Her books are available on Amazon - in eBook and in paperback at:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Madalyn-Morgan/e/B00J7VO9I2/
FUTURE BOOKS
Nearing the end of There Is No Going Home an idea for another spy thriller came into my mind - and that night I was woken by the title Spies and Shadows. Perhaps that will be the title of book number eight.
Each book in the Dudley Sisters Saga has a stand-alone sequel except Applause. I keep telling myself that it would be fun to write a novel set in London’s West End in the swinging sixties. However, because my imagination is still in the grip of the cold war - and I am positive there is more to come from Ena and the cold case department of The Home Office and her husband Henry and the spooks at MI5 - I think another spy thriller is on the way.
I also want to write a memoir about my working life. I have a collection of poetry, magazine articles, photographs and biographies of characters I played when I was an actress that I think would make my memoir different and hopefully interesting to read.
OUTLINE OF EARLIER BOOKS IN THE DUDLEY SISTERS SAGA
FOXDEN ACRES: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BCX59LE/
Foxden Acres, the first book in the saga, begins on the eve of 1939 when twenty-year-old Bess Dudley, the daughter of a Foxden groom, bumps into James Foxden the heir to Foxden Estate. Bess, a scholarship girl, lodges at Mrs McAllister’s boarding house in London while studying to be a teacher.
With offers of a teaching job in London and Foxden, Bess opts for Foxden, to be near James. However, when she is told that James is betrothed to the socially acceptable Annabel Hadleigh, Bess accepts the teaching post in London.
When war breaks out and London’s schoolchildren are evacuated, Bess returns to Foxden to organise a team of Land Girls and turn the Foxden Estate into arable land. James, having joined the RAF, is training to be a bomber pilot at nearby Bitteswell Aerodrome.
German bombs fall on London and Mrs McAllister’s house is blitzed to rubble. South Leicestershire is scarred too when an RAF plane carrying Polish airmen crash lands in a Foxden field. Traditional social barriers come crashing down when Flying Officer James Foxden falls in love with Bess. But is it too late? During the time Bess has been back at Foxden she has grown to like and respect Annabel Hadleigh. How can Bess be with James knowing it would break her friend’s heart? Besides, Bess has a shameful secret that she has vowed to keep from James at any cost.
APPLAUSE: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J7Y5LCW/
Applause is the second book in the saga. In the early years of World War Two, Margot (Margaret) Dudley works her way up from usherette to leading lady in a West End show. Driven by blind ambition Margot becomes immersed in the heady world of nightclubs, drink, drugs and fascist thugs – all set against a background of the London Blitz.
To achieve her dream, Margot risks losing everything she holds dear.
CHINA BLUE: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00XD85NQW/
China Blue, the third book, is Claire Dudley’s story. At the beginning of World War II Claire joins the WAAF. She excels in languages and is recruited by the Special Operations Executive to work in Occupied France. Against SOE rules, Claire falls in love. The affair has to be kept secret. Even after her lover falls into the hands of the Gestapo, Claire cannot tell anyone they are more than comrades.
As the war reaches its climax, Claire fears she will never again see the man she loves.
THE 9:45 TO BLETCHLEY: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01GEVW3Z8/
The 9:45 To Bletchley is the fourth book in the Dudley Sisters Saga. In the midst of the Second World War, and charged with taking vital surveillance equipment via the 9:45 train, Ena Dudley makes regular trips to Bletchley Park, until on one occasion she is robbed. When those she cares about are accused of being involved, she investigates, not knowing whom she can trust.
While trying to clear her name, Ena falls in love.
FOXDEN HOTEL: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B071LDYD2D/
The war is over. It is time for new beginnings.
Celebrating the opening of Foxden Hotel, New Year’s Eve 1948, and an enemy from the war years turns up. He threatens to expose a secret that will ruin Bess’s happiness and the new life she has worked so hard to create. Bess’s husband throws the man out. So is that the last they see of him? Or will he show up again when they least expect?
Bess had hoped fascism was a thing of the past, buried with the victims of WW2. Little does she know the trouble that lies ahead, not only for herself but also for her family.
CHASING GHOSTS: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D42HP1Q/
1949. After receiving treatment for shell shock in Canada, Claire's husband disappears. Has Mitch left her for the woman he talks about in his sleep? Or is he on the run from accusations of wartime treachery? Claire goes to France in search of the truth, aided by old friends from the Resistance.
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