Margaret Maddocks

10 August 1906 – 20 October 1993

Margaret Kathleen Avern was born on 10 August 1906 in Caversham, Berkshire, England, UK. She was educated at St. Helen's School, Northwood, Middlesex, and in Dresden. On 1937, she married Richard Maddocks, who died on 1970. Published since 1947, she is the only novelist to win four Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association for her novels Larksbrook (1962), The Silver Answer (1965), Thea (1970), and The Moon is Square (1976). In 1977, she wrote her autobiography: An Unlessoned Girl. Margaret Maddocks comments: "Any writer must find it difficult to assess her own

• The Quiet House
• An unlessoned girl
• Dance barefoot
• November Tree
• The moon is square
• The Silver Answer
• The silver answer
• Thea
• A View of the Sea
• A view of the sea
• An unlessoned girl
• Come Lasses and Lads