Authors: Annie Groves
As Time Goes By (37 page)
I would like to thank the following for their invaluable help:
Teresa Chris, my agent.
Susan Opie, my editor at HarperCollins.
Yvonne Holland, whose expertise enables me ‘not to have nightmares’ about getting things wrong.
Everyone at HarperCollins who contributed to the publication of this book.
My writing friends, especially those wonderfully generous fellow saga authors who have given me so much help and encouragement.
Tony, who once again has done wonders researching the facts I needed.
AS TIME GOES BY
Annie Groves lives in the North-West of England and has done so all of her life. She is the author of
Ellie Pride, Connie’s Courage
and
Hettie of Hope Street
, a series of novels for which she drew upon her family’s history, picked up from listening to her grandmother’s stories when she was a child. Her most recent novels are
Goodnight Sweetheart, Some Sunny
Day
and
The Grafton Girls
, which were inspired by wartime recollections from members of her own family who come from the city of Liverpool. Annie Groves also writes under the name Penny Jordan, and is an international bestselling author of over 170 novels with sales of over 67,000,000 copies.
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Ellie Pride
Connie’s Courage
Hettie of Hope Street
Goodnight Sweetheart
Some Sunny Day
The Grafton Girls
This novel is entirely a work of fiction.
The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.
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