Island of Secrets
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After spending 3 years training to be an Infant Teacher at Edge Hill College in Ormskirk, she taught in Liverpool for 3 years, where she met her husband-to-be.
Once married, they moved to Rainford, near St. Helens. After raising 3 children, Karen resumed her teaching career, teaching at Cross Pit Lane County Primary in Rainford, Derbyshire Hill County Primary in St. Helens and Billinge Chapel End County Primary in Billinge—until she took early retirement in 1994. With her children now young adults, Karen began to fulfil her lifelong dream of becoming a published author.
She joined St. Helens Writers’ Circle, eventually becoming editor of their annual Anthology for a number of years. She also joined the New Writers Scheme run by the Romantic Novelists Association and it was after this that her first novella was published in 2000 by D. C. Thomson (My Weekly Pocket Novels). Over thirty more followed: a variety of contemporary and historical novellas, which are set in such diverse places as Horwich and Bolton, Rainford, Wales, Devon, France and Malaysia—places where she has lived or visited on holiday.
All Karen’s novellas have been published in Large Print by F. A. Thorpe for sale to libraries in U.K. and America. Titles below.
Her two full-length hardback novels are published by Robert Hale:
A Most Rebellious Debutante’ set in the Regency period
A Father For Daisy’ set in Horwich in 1898
Up-dates can be found at www.karenabbott.blogspot.com
Author’s Books
Titles first published by D.C Thomson in My Weekly Pocket Novels
Also by F. A. Thorpe in The Linford Romance Series (Large Print)
Look out for them as e-books
Contemporary novellas now published also as ebooks
(Ile D’Oleron series)
An Island of Secrets - St. Clare Trilogy including
Book One - Summer Island,
Book Two - A Matter Of Trust
Book Three - A Heart Divided - (WW2 - prequel to 2 above)
A Season of Love - Duo, Ile D’Oleron series including
Book One - Just A Summer Romance
Book Two - Her Reluctant Heart
A Taste Of Happiness- Ile D’Oleron series
(Set in Horwich/Bolton)
Outrageous Deception
To Face The Past (Set in south Wales)
Look out for the following contemporary novellas as ebooks:-
(Set in Horwich/Bolton)
Red Rose Girl
Love Is Blind
Designs For Love
The Heart Knows No Bounds
(Set in Rainford)
A Divided Inheritance
A Change Of Heart
(Set in Malaysia)
Afraid To Love
To Capture A Heart
Illusions Of Love
A Time To Forgive
Love Conquers All
When True Love Wins
Danger Comes Calling
Faith For The Future
A Love Worth Waiting For
Historical novellas
(Suffragette era - set in Horwich)
Rising To The Call
An Unsuitable Alliance
(Regency period)
The Turning Tide
A French Masquerade
Dangerous Intrigue
Elusive Love
The Farrington Fortune
A Bride For Lord Mountjoy
The New Lord Westlake
Hold Onto Your Dream
Titles of full-length novels published by Robert Hale Limited
A Most Rebellious Debutante (Regency)
A Father For Daisy (Set in Horwich in late Victorian period)
Take Hold of Tomorrow (Set in Horwich in Edwardian period