Beatrice

In the quiet corner of her bedroom, Beatrice, a young lady in the Regency era begins a diary, never imagining how faithfully it will keep her secrets.As a girl on the brink of womanhood, she records stolen glances at balls, the small rebellions of the heart, and the careful hopes placed upon marriage, duty, and love. Her ink captures a world of candlelit evenings and unspoken rules, where every word must be weighed and every feeling concealed.Years later, when the Regency period has long given way to the reign of Victoria, and her life is irrevocably changed, Beatrice opens a second diary.Now older, wiser, and tempered by loss and endurance, she writes with a different hand and a sharper truth. The dreams of her youth linger in the margins, but experience has rewritten her understanding of devotion, regret, and the quiet power of survival. Through memory and reflection, the two diaries begin to speak to one another - revealing how time reshapes love, and how the woman she has become must reckon with the girl she once was.Told through the intimate pages of two lives lived by the same heart, this book is a moving contemplation on youth and maturity, expectation and reality, and the courage it takes to tell oneself the truth - no matter the cost. Author of over forty novels, AnneMarie Brear has crafted sweeping historical fiction with atmosphere, emotion, and drama aplenty that will surely satisfy any fan of the genre. AnneMarie was born in a small town in N.S.W. Australia, to English parents from Yorkshire, and is the youngest of five children. From an early age she loved reading, working her way through the Enid Blyton stories, before moving onto Catherine Cookson's novels as a teenager.Living in England during the 1980s and more recently, AnneMarie developed a love of history from visiting grand old English houses and this grew into a fascination with what may have happened behind their walls over their long existence. Her enjoyment of visiting old country estates and castles when travelling and, her interest in genealogy and researching her family tree, has been put to good use, providing backgrounds and names for her historical novels which are mainly set in Yorkshire or Australia between Victorian times and WWII.A long and winding road to publication led to her first novel being published in 2006.She has now published over thirty-five historical family saga novels, becoming an Amazon UK best seller and with her novel, The Slum Angel, winning a gold medal at the USA Reader's Favourite International Awards. Two of her books have been nominated for the Romance Writer's Australia Ruby Award and the USA In'dtale Magazine Rone award and recently she has been nominated twice as a finalist for the UK RNA RONA Awards.AnneMarie lives in the Southern Highlands of N.S.W. Australia.Please visit her website to learn more about AnneMarie, her books and to subscribe to her quarterly newsletter.