Maureen Reynolds

(Born 1938 –) - Dundee

Maureen Reynolds author photo. Photo courtesy of Black & White Publishing

Maureen Reynolds was born in Dundee and grew up during the Second World War; the influence of her upbringing clearly evident in the autobiographical Voices in the Street and Teatime Tales from Dundee. She is the author of the successful Neill family trilogy (The Sunday Girls, Towards a Dark Horizon and The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow) and the Molly McQueen mysteries.

Reynolds now lives in Perthshire and has four children and seven grandchildren.

  • Cover scan of Indian Summer
    Indian Summer
    Maureen Reynolds - Paperback - Black & White
    There are lots of changes happening at Molly McQueen's Agency. Biggest of all is that Molly herself must decide whether or not she should move to Australia. Before she decides, she enjoys a trip to Pitlochry Festival Theatre. But when she goes for a walk through the hills at Killiecrankie, she comes across a frightening scene.
  • Cover scan of McQueen's Agency
    McQueen's Agency
    Maureen Reynolds - Paperback - Black & White
    Molly McQueen opens her brand new venture, McQueen's Agency, which hires out temps to local businesses. Molly soon finds it tough, until one day when a lucrative job comes in to McQueen's Agency which almost seems too good to be true.
  • Cover scan of A Private Sorrow
    A Private Sorrow
    Maureen Reynolds - Paperback - Black & White
    Vera Barton's husband Dave and young daughter Etta went missing in 1930. After Dave's body was found, everyone assumed the worst. But decades later, Molly McQueen reluctantly agrees to take up the search for the long-lost child and ends up unravelling a tale of misery and revenge laced with family secrets and heartbreak.
  • Cover scan of The Sunday Girls

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    The Sunday Girls
    Maureen Reynolds - Paperback - Black & White
    'The Sunday Girls' records the changing fortunes of the Neill family during the 1930s' depression in Dundee. Daughter Ann is a bookworm and would love to stay on at school but, following the death of her mother, she is forced to help support the family by taking a job as a housemaid.
  • Cover scan of The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow

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    The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
    Maureen Reynolds - Paperback - Black & White
    In 'The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow', Maureen Reynolds concludes her compelling story describing the trials and tribulations of working-class life in the close-knit community of wartime and post-war Dundee.
  • Cover scan of Teatime Tales From Dundee

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    Teatime Tales From Dundee
    Maureen Reynolds - Paperback - B&W
    Maureen Reynolds was born and brought up in Dundee and her new collection of stories from the city is a nostalgic and affectionate look back at the city as it once was.
  • Cover scan of Voices In The Street

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    Voices In The Street: Growing Up In Dundee
    Maureen Reynolds - Paperback - Black & White
    Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds grew up in wartime Scotland, a young girl surrounded by adult concerns and as she came of age, a whole generation seemed to suddenly do the same, with the rise of the Teddy Boy and rock'n'roll.

Bibliography

Neill Family Trilogy

Molly McQueen mysteries

Non-fiction