Marie Joseph

Marie Joseph was born in Lancashire, England, and was educated at Blackburn High School for Girls. Before her marriage she was in the Civil Service.

She began to write at the age of 40, and after a very successful career as a short-story writer went on to write novels, sheuses her Northern background to enrich her bestselling novels. No less than five of her Lancashire based novels have been short-listed for the Romantic Novelist's Association Award during the past few years, and in 1983, Gemini Girls was runner-up. Her novel: A Better World Than This won the 1987 Romantic Novelist's Association Major Award. Down-to-earth characters bring a vivid authenticity to her stories, which were written with both humour and poignancy.

She now lives in Middlesex with her husband, a retired chartered Engineer, and they have two married daughters and eight grandchildren.

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Gemini Girls
7 editions - first published in 1982
Emma Sparrow
6 editions - first published in 1981
Ring-a-roses
6 editions - first published in 1979
The listening silence
6 editions - first published in 1983
A leaf in the wind
6 editions - first published in 1980 Borrow
The clogger's child
5 editions - first published in 1985
Footsteps in the Park
5 editions - first published in 1980
Lisa Logan
5 editions - first published in 1984 Borrow
Maggie Craig
5 editions - first published in 1980 Borrow
The Way We Were
5 editions - first published in 1994
One step at a time
4 editions - first published in 1977
Since he went away
4 editions - first published in 1992
A world apart
4 editions - first published in 1989
The travelling man
4 editions - first published in 1989
A Better World Than This
4 editions - first published in 1987
Polly Pilgrim
2 editions - first published in 1985
Omnibus
1 edition - first published in 1991
Pas de bagne pour Foufouille
1 edition - first published in 2002
Thel istening silence
1 edition - first published in 1985
The Clogger's Child
1 edition - first published in 1986
Maggie Craig
1 edition - first published in 1982
Polly Pilgrim
1 edition - first published in 1986
The Travelling Man
1 edition - first published in 1991
A World Apart
1 edition - first published in 1989
A Better World Than This
1 edition - first published in 1987
Gemini girls.
1 edition - first published in 1993 Borrow
One step at a time
1 edition - first published in 1977 Borrow
Prelude
1 edition - first published in 1985 Borrow

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