Author
Two lists, two very different sets of readers, and one landscape: the Weald.
A.R. Brown lives in East Sussex, among the lanes, fields and woods of the High Weald.
The St Elowen’s books began at home, as bedtime stories told to children who always wanted one more chapter, and grew into a boarding-school series for younger readers: midnight feasts and impossible dares, and beneath them something steadier, loyalty, courage, and the quiet promises we keep to the people who came before us.
The Shadows of War grew from the landscape around Hurst Green and Bodiam, and from encounters with the area’s wartime past, including learning that a secret resistance patrol had once been established there in preparation for a possible German invasion. Although the novel is a work of fiction, it draws on the people, places and events of the period.
St Elowen’s, Book 1
A.R. Brown
All Emily Ashworth wants, on her first day at St Elowen’s, is to belong. What she finds is a midnight feast, a secret den among the pines, and a small golden light in a locked tower that nobody will explain.
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Book One of a wartime trilogy
A.R. Brown
Sussex, 1939. Lily Harper is twenty-two when the farm becomes hers, and the war comes to her fields. In a village where a careless word can ruin a life, she will learn that everyone is keeping a secret.
Available to pre-order · Published December 2026