Maureen Lee was born in Bottle and now lives in Colchester, Essex. "The Leaving of Liverpool" is her fifteenth novel. "Kitty and her Sisters," "The September Girls," "The Old House on the Corner," "Queen of the Mersey,"" Stepping Stones," "Liverpool Annie," "Dancing in the Dark," "The Girl from Barefoot House," "Laceys of Liverpool," "The House by Princes Park," "Lime Street Blues "and three novels in the Pearl Street Series; "Lights out Liverpool," "Put out the Fires "and "Through the Storm," are all available in Orion Paperback. She won the 2000 Romantic Novel of the Year award for "Dancing