Later that night Amanda gets many phone calls (she only hears someone breathing) and a brick is thrown through her bedroom window. Nigel is also angry that Malory is there. While he's there Nigel shows up to explain and apologize to Amanda for sleeping with Clare, but Amanda turns him away. (Malory has had a feeling that Nigel, his younger half-brother, has been having an affair with Malory's 'girlfriend' Clare.) Malory drives Amanda home (she's staying at her mother's house at the moment).

But as she's about to jump she is suddenly pulled back. Twenty-year-old Amanda Conroy is about to jump off a bridge after she sees her fiancé Nigel cheating on her (Nigel was in bed having sex with another woman).

In 1997, she was the overall winner of the BBC's Mastermind, winning the last final presented by Magnus Magnusson. Since the birth of her twin grandchildren, she is also a regular visitor to New York City, where the little tots live. She also likes to travel in Europe, to inspire her romances, especially in France, Greece and Italy where many of her novels are set. When she's not writing, she enjoys watching very old films, listening to music, going to the theatre, and eating in good restaurants. In her house, she had several thousand books, and an amazing video collection. In 2010 she became chairman of the Southern Writers' Conference, and the next year was elected the twenty-six Chairman (2011–2013) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.ĭivorced twice, Annie lives in Somerset, South West England, and shares her home with a West Highland white terrier called Bertie Wooster. She started to wrote romance, and she had her first novel 'Garden of Dreams' accepted by Mills & Boon in 1975, she published her work under the pseudonym of Sara Craven.

After she returned to journalism, she joined the Middlesbrough Writers' Group, where she met other romance writer Mildred Grieveson (Anne Mather). She worked as journalist at the Paignton Observer, but after her marriage, she moved to the north of England, where she worked as teacher. She was always a voracious reader, some of her all-time favorites books are: 'Pride and Prejudice' by Jane Austen, 'Middlemarch' by George Eliot, 'Jane Eyre' by Charlotte Brontë, 'Gone With the Wind' by Margaret Mitchell and 'The Code of the Woosters' by P. Anne Bushell was born on October 1938 in South Devon, England, just before World War II and grew up in a house crammed with books.

Comparative Strangers by Sara Craven