Remembered Serenade

By Mary Burchell

Fresh out of music college, Joanna Ransome hopes to forge a career as a singer.

She’s touched and grateful for the help and interest of old Mr. Wilmore, who she feels she owes everything.

He gets her off to a promising start, and soon enough she’s introduced to the great conductor Oscar Warrender.

It seems she can’t take a wrong step, at least career-wise.

And then she meets Elliot Cheam.

Cheam is Mr Wilmore’s nephew, and is convinced she’s nothing more than a conniving gold-digger trying to bleed his uncle dry.

His hurtful comments niggle away at her, chipping away at her self-confidence and making her worry for her career.

She’s determined to prove him wrong – but can she manage to change such a stubborn mind and continue with her success?

Remembered Serenade is the ninth book in Mary Burchell’s Warrender Saga.

Mary Burchell was the pen name of Ida Cook (1904-1986). With her eldest sister Mary Louise Cook, she attended the Duchess’ School in Alnwick. Together, the sisters helped 29 Jews to escape from the Nazis, funded mainly by Ida’s writing. In 1965, the Cook sisters were honored as Righteous Gentiles by the Yad Vashem Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in Israel. Mary Burchell published more than 125 romance novels in total and helped found the Romantic Novelists’ Association, standing as its president from 1966 until her death.