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Anne Lamb was born on 1920 in Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, England, UK, daughter of Annie Sanderson and George Manners Lamb, a soldier. She was educated at Army Schools, and attended Berwick High School for Girls. She worked as civil sevant on Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1942 to 1950. On 1th October 1949, she married Edwin Charles Rundle, and had one daughter, Anne, and two sons, James and Iain. Anne Rundle died on 1989.
When she published her first novel in 1967, she won the Netta Muskett Award for new writers. She also won twice the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Cat on a Broomstick (1970) and Flower of Silence (1971). In 1974, she was named Daughter of Mark Twain. Author of over 40 gothic and romance novels, she wrote as Anne Rundle, her maiden namem and under the pseudonyms of Joanne Marshall, Marianne Lamont, Alexandra Manners, Jeanne Sanders, and Georgianna Bell.
Full Series List in Order
The Island
1 - Echoing Yesterday (May-1983)2 - Karran Kinrade (Jul-1983)
3 - The Red Bird (Jan-1984)
4 - The Gaming House (May-1984)
Book List in Order: 11 titles
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The Stone Maiden
- Mar-1974
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Unexpectedly, Maggie Steart is forced by circumstance to go and live with her father's long estranged kin in the Highlands of Scotland. There, beneath the cold and austere gables of the ancestral home, Maggie finds herself drawn into the web of t...
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The Singing Swans
- Jan-1975
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A haunting blend of romance, mystery and ancient myth. Meraud’s innocent green eyes had seen too much for her tender years -- debauchery, cruelty and too little love in a glittering world of French finery. Then, when her wanton mother was murde...
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Candles in the Wood
- Oct-1975
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Only in her wildest dreams could Helen Comyn hope to return to Gallowmerry. She had grown up a servant's child on the Grant family's estate, and had savored the memory of its elegance as well as her love for young Lennox Grant for long years after s...
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Cardigan Square
- Jan-1977
- / Gothic
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This glittering romance of a young woman torn between two worlds and the love of two brothers is set against the background of nineteenth-century England in the throes of social reform. As bright as she is beautiful, Sable Martin never doubted the...
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Sable Hunter
- Jan-1977
- / Gothic
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This glittering romance of a young woman torn between two worlds and the love of two brothers is set against the background of nineteenth-century England in the throes of social reform....
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The White Moths
- Jan-1978
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Emma Wildford, seeing how her society-addled mother ruined her parents’ marriage, decided to live with her practical-thinking father when her family split apart. But now that Emma is interested in marriage, she finds her father jealous of the idea....
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Wildford's Daughter
- Jan-1978
- / Gothic
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Original title: The White Moths. Emma Wildford, seeing how her society-addled mother ruined her parents’ marriage, decided to live with her practical-thinking father when her family split apart. But now that Emma is interested in marriage, she f...
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Echoing Yesterday
- May-1983
- / Historical Romance
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In Ireland, Clemence is taken in by an Uncle when her family is drowned at sea. Grown-up, she falls in love with menacing Luke. When she finds herself pregnant, he becomes cold and distant until the night when he walks with her on the treacherous cha...
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Karran Kinrade
- Jul-1983
- / Historical Romance
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Karran Kinrade ... She was made in the image of her father, the untamed gypsy who had trapped her will-o'-the-wisp mother into a wild and desolate love affair But the white-faced child with the cloud of dark hair had an elusive quality of her ...
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The Gaming House
- May-1984
- / Historical Romance
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KARRAN... She was abandoned -- left alone in the great house by the sea, constantly hoping for the return of her lover whose child she carried. Only pride and the protection of her dead husband's name kept her safe from the envy and jealousy o...