Maggie Hope (Author) Books In Order

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Maggie Hope is a pen name used by Una Horne.

She was born in County Durham, where she grew up. She was a nurse for many years but left her career to raise her family. She lived in Saltburn by the Sea in Cleveland until passing away at the age of 84.

Her romance stories made her a bestselling author. She was born the daughter of a miner. She moved to Bishop Auckland when she was a child and she went to the grammar school in town. There her English teacher declared that she had a skill for writing and might be able to make a living of it.

Una would initially train as a nurse but then gave birth to Sue and Peter. She would join her husband’s haulage contractors business later. When her children enrolled in secondary school, she got her A levels and then completed an Open University degree.

When there was an extra typewriter in the office of her husband that was no longer needed, she decided to take it home with her. When she was in her fifties, she decided to start writing once more. She was inspired to think of it as a career once more after writing an article about her son’s jackdaw, submitting it to The Northern Echo, and having it published and being paid twenty pounds for it. The event was encouraging and she then thought of herself as a writer.

She wrote fifteen books total, and the first came out when she was sixty years old under her own name. Her books were frequently based on communities that she grew up with. Her daughter says that her mother was always interested in history, regional history in particular.

The author belonged to MENSA and also contended with dementia later in life. She loved crosswords and puzzles and made dresses and knitted. She passed after a short illness. She had two children and leaves behind a grandchild.

Orphan Girl is the first book to come out from Maggie Hope. This is a stand alone that was first published in 1994 and is also known by the alternate title Lorinda Leigh.

Lorinda is the main character in this story, and is just a child when she goes through a horrible tragedy that means that her true family is gone. Now she has to live in the boarding house run by her aunt and soon finds out that she is nothing more than a servant to them who is not being paid.

She grows up there lonely, always wanting affection. Even though she is able to discover friendship and love there, she also sees the chance to get away from the family she has there and the surroundings by getting married.

However, is it better to get married to get away from something or is it better to find true love? Lorinda doesn’t know for certain and has a big choice ahead of her. What will she do? Read this book to find out!

A Wartime Nurse is the second book to come out from Maggie Hope. It was first released in 2011.

When the bombs start falling, one nurse’s strength will be put to the test. Theda Wearmouth is so happy to have found a place for herself at Newcastle Hospital. Finding a way to put her skills to the test and be helpful is the only thing that she wanted.

She never anticipated that her soldier boyfriend would be killed throughout the course of war. Worse, it happened before he could follow through on the promise he made to her that they would get married.

Theda is horribly broken apart by the death and is reassigned to a hospital unit that deals with the German prisoners of war. She knows that she has an obligation to treat them. Can she get over her personal feelings and be a nurse? Or is this too much for her to deal with? Read this book to find out what happens!