The Lorimer Legacy: Absolutely gripping and compelling historical romance fiction

‘FORGET THE THORN BIRDS… THIS ROMPING HISTORICAL EPIC IS FLUENT AND ENTERTAINING’ Lancashire Evening Post

A legacy may be of great value and still bring bad luck…

Margaret Lorimer – daughter of disgraced tycoon John Junius Lorimer – has finally succeeded in throwing off the constrictions imposed on women by Victorian society. She has, with courage and defiance, achieved her dream of becoming a doctor.

But when her ward, eighteen-year-old Alexa, declares her own ambition is to become an opera singer, Margaret refuses to allow the girl the same freedom she won for herself.

She is determined that Alexa should be respectable and rise above the taint of her birth, instead of following such a disreputable career.

Alexa, however, has other ideas. She has inherited a superb voice from her Italian mother and is determined to have her way, even if it means travelling far from home.

But she has also inherited a legacy from the father she never knew – a legacy which will bring her no happiness…

The Lorimer Legacy is the unputdownable second volume in The Lorimer Chronicles saga series, which tells the colourful and addictive stories of the lives and fortunes of this vibrant family from the 1870s to the present day.

Readers love Anne

‘Fast and meaty… with pain and grief fairly balanced with hope and joy in roughly equal proportions’ British Book News

‘Exciting, the characters lively and the sense of period meticulous’ Irish Times

‘The book leaves a century of scope ahead for saga addicts’ Books

‘There are moments in life when there is nothing like a good juicy saga read and Anne Melville is a most competent and engaging mistress of the craft’ Oxford Today

‘Engaging and readable’ Financial Times

‘The story is exciting, the characters lively and the sense of period meticulous’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Powerful stuff for those who like family intrigues’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘A novel of character and great compassion’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

‘Anne Melville has the ability to write about history with an unobtrusive knowledge, while keeping the action going and adding romance that doesn’t cloy’⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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Anne Melville is a pseudonym of Margaret Potter, the daughter of the author and lecturer Bernard Newman and the wife of Jeremy Potter, novelist and historian. She was educated at Harrow County School for girls and gained a BA and MA from St. Hugh’s College, Oxford. Before writing, she worked a variety of jobs including teaching in Egypt, editing a children’s magazine in London, and advising the Citizen’s Advice Bureau in Twickenham. She published her first novel as Margaret Newman, a mystery novel entitled Murder to Music. Newman continued publishing novels until her death in 1998, under a variety of pseudonyms. View Less