novelist, writing novels including To Hear a Nightingale, The Business and In Sunshine or in Shadow. Most of her books are set in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1996, she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. Bibliography Non fiction Coronet Among the Weeds (1963) Coronet Among the Grass (1972) MI5 And Me (2018) Spies and Stars: MI5, Showbusiness and Me (2019) Novels Lucinda (1966) The Business (1989) In Sunshine or in Shadow (1991) Stardust (1992) Nanny (1993) Change of Heart (1994) Grand Affair (1997) Love Song (1998) The Kissing Garden (1999) Country Wedding (1999) The Blue Note (2000) The Love Knot (2000) Summertime (2001) Distant Music (2002) The Magic Hour (2005) Friday's Girl (2005) Out of the Blue (2006) In Distant Fields (2006) The White Marriage (2007) Goodnight Sweetheart (2007) The Enchanted (2008) The Land of Summer (2008) The Daisy Club (2009) Love Quartet Belgravia (1983) Country Life (1985) At Home (1986) By Invitation (1993) Nightingale Saga To Hear a Nightingale (1988) The Nightingale Sings (1996) Debutantes Saga Debutantes (1995) The Season (2001) The Bexham Trilogy The Chestnut Tree (2002) The Wind Off the Sea (2003) The Moon at Midnight (2003) Eden Saga Daughters of Eden (2004) The House of Flowers (2004) Mums on the Run Series Mums on the Run (2010) A Dip Before Breakfast (2012) With Terence Brady Victoria Series Victoria (1972) Victoria and Company (1974) Honestly Series No, Honestly (1974) Yes, Honestly (1977) Upstairs, Downstairs Series Rose's Story (1972) References and sources External links 1942 births Living people Daughters of barons English historical novelists English romantic fiction writers English television writers British women screenwriters English screenwriters People from Haywards Heath English women novelists British women television writers 20th-century English novelists 21st-century British novelists 20th-century English women writers 21st-century English women writers Women romantic fiction writers Women historical novelists