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  • Bibliography:
    36 Books
  • First Book:
    June 2003
  • Latest Book:
    March 2019
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About the Author

Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and grew up there in the West Country. After her marriage she resided for some years on Merseyside before moving to Buckinghamshire where she still lives. She has three grown-up children, and six grandchildren, and writes full time. Megan of Merseyside is her eleventh novel for Arrow.

Book List in Order: 36 titles



  • Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff. Much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris has written such an immediate and beautiful novel, you'l...



  • From much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris comes this engaging and enthralling saga about relationships - those between families, between friends and between lovers - and the forces that can make or break them. Perfect for readers of ...



  • With all her signature warmth, wonderful characters and unforgettable drama, lose yourself in this heart-rending and moving saga of a young woman's determination to keep the one person she loves best in the world from much-loved multi-million copy be...



  • Rhianon and Sabrina Webster are born into a humble mining community. Their stern father dotes on his youngest daughter, beautiful, flighty Sabrina, but it is homely, Rhianon, who strives to keep their family together - until the day when the man she ...



  • Returning from the war, handsome Michael Quinn the cobbler is a changed man. He moves his family from their comfortable home to live over a shop in Liverpool’s notorious Scotland Road. Admired and liked by his customers he is a tyrant at home, ruli...



  • New beginnings - fresh sorrows ... Young Megan Williams has come to Liverpool in search of work and a fresh start. She soon joins her father at Walker's Shipping Company where his co-driver Robert Field takes a great interest in her. But she has fal...



  • Life seems to alternate between periods of stunning happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times when bad luck and despair almost drown her happiness forever. When their baby, Cai...



  • Crippled by polio, little Winnie Mallow has little to look forward to in life after her father is called up into the army and her mother, Grace, begins drinking heavily. After her father is killed in action Winnie is sent to an orphanage where she is...



  • When Lucy Patterson promises her dying mother that she'll leave the comfortable home they've shared in Wallasey with her mother's employer, Stanley Jones, to go and live with her Aunt Flo on the other side of the Mersey, she has no idea of how terrib...






  • Finding herself pregnant, Julia Winter is forced to leave home rather than bring shame on her family. Reduced to living in the slums of Liverpool, she eventually finds work in a respectable hotel where Eunice Hawkins, the manager's wife, is also exp...



  • When all hope is gone, are dreams enough...? After losing both her parents, sixteen-year-old Merrion Roberts is left to bring up her baby sister. Unable to cope alone, she teams up with Rhonda Rees, a trained milliner, who also has a young baby. Th...



  • Karyn and Tudor Morgan have moved from a small mining community to the bustle and noise of Cardiff in search of a new life. Tudor longs to be a star entertainer and so Karyn gets a job leaving her husband to look after their young daughter Delia, as ...



  • A life full of shattered hopes... Brenda O'Donnell is turned out by her family when she finds herself pregnant at sixteen. Widowed Sid Rawlins, the rag-and-bone man, says she can come and live with him and he will give her child a name in return for...



  • Was she always to be fated in love...? When Gaynor's god-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps Gaynor to forget her sorrows until with the war looming, Konrad is ...



  • When Molly's father returns from the war a broken man, the whole family is forced to move to the slums of Liverpool. Her life was full of hardship and despair but despite many difficulties she refuses to give up hope, and even after her father is ...



  • They shared a secret no one must ever know… When seventeen-year-old Ruth Davies’ father is invalided out of the war in April 1918 and unable to work the whole family has no option but to move to the infamous Tiger Bay area of Cardiff. Not only...



  • Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had her whole future ahead of her. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends - a man she instinctively dislikes. Kept under lock and...



  • Would she always be unlucky in love? The only child of over-protective parents, Sarah Lewis yearns to leave home. Studying hard to please them, she earns a place at Cardiff University. Here she is swept off her feet by handsome Gwyn Roberts, but w...



  • It is 1914 and Christabel Blakemore is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fiancé has been drowned at sea. Heartbroken and fearing her parents will find out she is pregnant throw her out she decides to te...






  • Fern Jenkins' life is changed for ever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion. Turned out of their home by the ruthless pit owner, Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff. Whilst Wyn...



  • Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives. Lucy and Robert Tanner long for the day when they can marry and the future is full of promise for all three. Until tragedy strikes when Lucy's parents...



  • "If you marry him then you are no longer a daughter of mine and I shall disown you." In spite of her father's threat, Sheila Maxwell decides to give up everything to follow her heart. However, her new life with Joe is anything but easy; although he i...



  • Delve into this enthralling and emotional saga of one woman's fight for a better life from much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris. Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will not be disappointed!WHAT READERS AR...



  • A compelling novel of suspense, and an intriguing new departure for much-loved saga writer Rosie Harris. Maureen Flynn has a secret. Sixteen years earlier, when she was a schoolgirl, something terrible happened to her. And when a bitter rejection ...



  • At eighteen, Kate Stacey accepts a post as nanny to Lady Helen Sherwood’s daughters, and falls passionately in love with Lady Helen’s brother, David. When the liaison is discovered, David is recalled to his father’s industrial empire in the Wel...



  • Liverpool, 1924. Racing to meet her fiancé in her father's new-fangled motor car, Penny Forshaw knocks over a little girl and - much to her fiancé's disapproval - feels it her duty to take in six-year-old Kelly while she recovers. But little did Pe...



  • 1943. Wartime England. Married to a Guardsman at the age of eighteen after a whirlwind courtship, Helen Woodley believed her future was assured -- only to be widowed before she was forty. Though she put on a brave face, Helen could no more reconcile ...



  • A moving saga of conflicted family loyalties and late-flowering passion set in 1970s' Liverpool. Liverpool, 1973. Reluctantly, widow Jenny Langton decides to downsize, swapping the spacious family home she shared with her late husband for a one-be...



  • An emotionally compelling family saga about second chances and regaining one’s spirit. Newly widowed after a forty-year marriage, Margaret Wright is finding it hard to adjust to independence, having been stifled for so long by her overbearing, c...






  • Two friends discover that life doesn’t always turn out as one would expect in this absorbing family saga. It’s not always easy living in a close-knit community where everyone knows everyone else’s business. Growing up in a quiet West Country...



  • A chance meeting in Liverpool will change Megan Lloyd’s life in ways she could never have imagined... August, 1942. 21-year-old Megan Lloyd is determined to do her bit for the war effort -- and a chance encounter with an American army officer i...



  • Their lives were torn by conflicts only love could heal When the war was over, Lieutenant Kate Russell would marry a man with a pedigree as sound as her own. Because confidence, beauty and privilege were advantages she took for granted; and besid...



  • It’s never too late to fall in love… Now in her seventies and widowed for the past three years, Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping and she invites him in for a cup of tea...



  • Widowed after fifty years of marriage, Betty has put all thought of romance behind her. Or has she …? Newly widowed after fifty years of marriage, Betty Wilson is determined to remain in the home she has lived in the whole of her married life and r...



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    A GRIPPING AND MOVING SAGA SET IN 1920S MERSEYSIDE.She saved the business, but can she save herself?After years of neglect by her mother, when her father comes home from sea and sets up as a carrier at the Liverpool Docks, Patsy dreams of being a pro...



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    When 14-year old Sara Jenkins rescues her baby sister, Myfanwy, from the fire which kills their mother, little does she realise the burden of responsibility she is taking on. She has to face the hardest times of her life and fight for herself, Myfanw...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rosie Harris has published 36 books.

Rosie Harris does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Mind of Her Own, was published in March 2019.

The first book by Rosie Harris, One Step Forward, was published in June 2003.

No. Rosie Harris does not write books in series.