The Chatelaine

Product Description Willow was only seventeen when she married Rowell and became the chatelaine of Rochford Manor. Her happiness seemed complete, but gradually disillusion set in as Rowell proved to be cruel, unfaithful and greedy. Although bitterly disappointed with her life, Willow maintained her beauty and dignity as the years passed. In this engrossing saga of conflict and passion she eventually found love with a man who represented everything that her husband was not. About the Author Claire Lorrimer began her writing career as a child. She was encouraged and influenced by her mother, Denise Robins, author and founder member of the Romantic Novelists Association. On leaving school, Lorrimer got a job on the editorial team of a woman’s magazine. During the Second World War, serving as a WAAF officer, she began to write light romantic fiction for Woman’s Illustrated. Her literary work later included some sixty light romantic novels. Meticulously researched, Claire Lorrimer’s historical fiction is set in many different eras and often highlights the situation of women. She lives in rural Kent and still writes stories and plays for her friends and her eight grandchildren.