Maureen Reynolds
(Born 1938 –) - Dundee
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.
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Add to BasketIndian Summer
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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. -
Add to BasketMcQueen's Agency
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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. -
Add to BasketA Private Sorrow
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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. -
The Sunday Girls
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'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. -
The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
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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. -
Teatime Tales From Dundee
£6.79
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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. -
Voices In The Street: Growing Up In Dundee
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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
- The Sunday Girls - 2007
- Towards a Dark Horizon - 2007
- The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow - 2008
Molly McQueen mysteries
- McQueen’s Agency - 2010
- Private Sorrow - 2011
- Indian Summer - 2012
Non-fiction
- Voices in the Street - 2006
- Teatimes Tales from Dundee - 2009
Last modified Thursday 29 March 2012












