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AnneMarie Brear
ALLi Author Member
Location: Australia & New Zealand
Genres: Historical Fiction
AnneMarie was born in a small town in N.S.W. Australia, to English parents from Yorkshire, and is the youngest of five children. From an early age she loved reading, working her way through the Enid Blyton stories, before moving onto Catherine Cookson’s novels as a teenager.
Living in England during the 1980s and more recently, AnneMarie developed a love of history from visiting grand old English houses and this grew into a fascination with what may have happened behind their walls over their long existence. Her enjoyment of visiting old country estates and castles when travelling and, her interest in genealogy and researching her family tree, has been put to good use, providing backgrounds and names for her historical novels which are mainly set in Yorkshire or Australia between Victorian times and WWII.
A long and winding road to publication led to her first novel being published in 2006. She has now published over twenty-nine historical family saga novels, becoming an Amazon best seller and with her novel, The Slum Angel, winning a gold medal at the USA Reader's Favourite International Awards. Two of her books have been nominated for the Romance Writer’s Australia Ruby Award and the USA In’dtale Magazine Rone award and recently she has been nominated as a finalist for the UK RNA RONA Awards.
AnneMarie now lives in the Southern Highlands of N.S.W. Australia
AnneMarie Brear's books
A Distant Horizon - The Distant Series 1
After surviving the Irish Great Hunger, can Ellen prosper in a strange land? Or has she made the greatest mistake of her life?
Beyond the Distant Hills - The Distant Series 2
Will she rise and build an empire for her children? Or will she lose all that she has struggled to achieve?
The Slum Angel
Can Victoria find the security she has lost? Will a certain doctor be the man she can give her heart to?
The Market Stall Girl - The Beaumont Series 1
Will Beth and Noah find the happiness they wish for or will overwhelming events break them apart?
The Distant Legacy - The Distant Series 3
She is the eldest daughter… Can she follow in her brave mother’s footsteps or will her mistakes be her undoing?
The Promise of Tomorrow
Can Charlotte find the happiness that always seems under threat, and will Harry return home to her?
The War Nurse's Diary
When a stranger’s life in more intriguing than your own… A diary connects two women from different generations.
Beatrice
In the quiet corner of her bedroom, Beatrice, a young lady in the Regency era begins a diary, never imagining how faithfully it will keep her secrets. As a girl on the brink of womanhood, she records stolen glances at balls, the small rebellions of the heart, and the careful hopes placed upon marriage, duty, and love. Her ink captures a world of candlelit evenings and unspoken rules, where every word must be weighed and every feeling concealed. Years later, when the Regency period has long given way to the reign of Victoria, and her life is irrevocably changed, Beatrice opens a second diary. Now older, wiser, and tempered by loss and endurance, she writes with a different hand and a sharper truth. The dreams of her youth linger in the margins, but experience has rewritten her understanding of devotion, regret, and the quiet power of survival. Through memory and...
A Sister's Sacrifice - Family Ties 1
Yorkshire, England, 1914. Olivia Brodie is a devoted parlourmaid serving the Broadbent family at Hawthorn Manor and spending precious time with her father and brothers at the family forge. But everything changes the day Spencer Middleton, the Broadbents’ charming and enigmatic grandson, arrives. Sparks fly between Olivia and the army officer. Their connection is undeniable—but so too are the rigid boundaries of class and propriety. When Spencer departs, promising to return, Olivia dares to dream of a future that defies society’s expectations. However, tragedy strikes Olivia’s family, devastating her. Compounding her grief is the news that the manor is sold, leaving her homeless and jobless. With her younger brother Lachie to care for she is forced to seek work in the nearby bleak industrial town, and Olivia finds herself far from the countryside she loves—and from the man who captured her heart. Desperate to keep Lachie out of the perilous...