Now on Amazon

Meredith has been hard at work finishing her eighth book, The Memoirs of Lottie Hill.  She is excited to share it with you!  It is now available to purchase.  You can buy it on Amazon in paperback for $10.44 or the Kindle version for just $5.99.

The Memoirs of Lottie Hill

Meredith is busy finishing up her eight book!  She is hoping to have it released in the next few weeks.

 

THE MEMOIRS OF LOTTIE HILL

By Meredith Kennon

 

An American by birth, Erica Sinclair has barely found her feet after a trying first year in England, but believes she is finally fitting in. She awakes one morning, happy to be in love and full of expectation for her first real writing assignment for the London magazine for which she works. Within hours, her world has crumbled, and she finds herself the unwanted guest at Cairnview, the country home of a one-hundred-year-old woman in Stirling, Scotland. Friendless and far from home, Erica is painfully aware that the woman's grandson from Newcastle is there for the express purpose of getting her removed from the house, and that's before even meeting Lottie Hill, the redoubtable centenarian. Exhausted and ill and believing herself very much alone, Erica disconnects for a few days, not knowing that all is not completely lost. She has yet to learn that true friends can be found in new friends and that there is much perspective to be gained by hearing the life story of one, who has not only survived almost everyone she has ever loved, but also two of the darkest periods in the history of the world. Lottie Hill has a story to tell.

Now on Amazon

Meredith is excited to have completed her seventh book!  A Grandmother's Home Companion - A Nostalgic Treasury of Seasons Past and Simpler Times is presented by Red Broom Honey Farms and is now available to purchase.  You can buy it on Amazon in paperback for $10.44.  You can also purchase it here for $10.99 in paperback.

A Grandmother's Home Companion

Meredith is very excited about her newest project!  Her seventh book goes in a different direction, but Meredith has had so much fun with this one.  The book should be available by July 1st!

A Grandmother's Home Companion -
A Nostalgic Treasury of Seasons Past and Simpler Times
By Meredith Kennon

In days gone by, the rearing of large families and carving out lives without the modern conveniences of today, allowed little time or energy for the recording of thoughts and feelings. Those who did were few and far between. Even today, with all the technology at our disposal, journal-writing can be a daunting prospect, especially in our golden years. The task is not only enormous; it can also be bittersweet, encumbered by the awakening of unwelcome memories of difficult times. The aim of this book is to lessen the affects of the bitter and emphasize the recollections of the sweet. It is a memory-triggering collection of stories, quotes, and pieces of a simpler time.  Whether read aloud to children or in private and in silence, this treasury seeks to release the ephemeral memories of childhood, that fleeting time of innocence and utter trust. Spaces are left throughout the book for the reader to note their own thoughts, memories, or impressions that come to mind while reading—notes that may very well prove priceless to the generations that follow. It's the perfect gift for the grandmother in your life.

Now on Amazon

Meredith is excited to have completed her sixth book!  The Gown Shop on Regent Street is now available to purchase.  You can buy it on Amazon in either paperback for $14.99 or the Kindle version for just $7.99.  You can also purchase it here for $14.99 in paperback.

New Kindle Prices

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Meredith is excited to let her fans know that Amazon has made it possible for her to offer the Kindle version of all of her books for a lower price.  You can now purchase Under the Same Umbrella for just $3.99, Tattered Letters for $2.99, and Almost Enough, At Willows Edge, and Return to Greystone for $4.99 each.

The Gown Shop on Regent Street

Meredith is working hard finishing up her sixth book.  It is on schedule to be released this fall, 2012.

The Gown Shop on Regent Street

By Meredith Kennon

The war is over at last, and London is alive and vibrant, but a city of rubble and deprivation. One woman, Priscilla Armstrong, determines to pursue her dream of opening a gown shop in the wartorn city, offering exquisite designs of her own making, salvaged from materials of previous generation's castoffs.The shop becomes a place of beauty and creativity,  where ladies of all walks of life find brief respite from the hardships and trauma of the past seven years. Within its walls, a handful of residents seeks what all of England craves, a return to normalcy, and the fulfillment of hopes and dreams, once so seemingly out of reach. Amidst rationing, crime, and a terrible housing shortage, something of beauty peeks out from the rubble and speaks to the wounded hearts of the women who so bravely endured it all.

Now on Amazon

Meredith's fifth book, Return to Greystone is now available to purchase.  You can buy it on Amazon in either paperback for $14.99 or the Kindle version for just $8.99.  You can also purchase it here for $14.99 in paperback.

Return to Greystone

Meredith's fifth book, the third book in the Greystone series is set to be release October 1, 2011. 

Return to Greystone 

by Meredith Kennon 

Return to Greystone is the dramatic and heartwarming conclusion to her Greystone Series, which has brought England’s World War II home-front struggles to life.  Nearly six years into the war, Mrs. Eleanor Wood, the widowed mistress of Greystone Manor, anxiously awaits the return of her son William from a Japanese POW camp.  A recent letter from him to his steadfast fiancée has given rise to new hope that he has indeed survived the war.  As the conflict in the Pacific draws to its frighful close, Eleanor finds that instead of the quiet reprieve she was anticipating, her home is needed more than ever to alleviate the widespread housing shortage. Concerned by the difficulties still facing the war-torn people of her country, she observes those around her bravely embracing the future, and wishes she was young enough to pursue the desires of her own heart. Drawing strength from her family, and most especially from Gilda Gardner, her young protégé, Eleanor watches, wishes, and waits.

Now on Amazon

A whole month earlier than expected, At Willows Edge is now available on Amazon.  You can get it here now in paperback for $14.99.  It is also available here for the Kindle version for just $8.99.   Meredith is excited to start her 5th book, third in the Greystone Series.  It will be called Return to Greystone.

At Willows Edge

The sequel to Almost Enough and Meredith's fourth book is expected to be released around November 1, 2010.

AT WILLOWS EDGE

By Meredith Kennon

In the final months of World War II, newly-wedded Thomas and Gilda Gardner make their home at Willows Edge, in the village of Englewood, Warwickshire. Thomas is assigned as a pilot instructor at Lindley Field, having been wounded in France on D-day, and Gilda resumes her war work at nearby Greystone Manor. Under the direction of Mrs. Eleanor Wood, her mentor and owner of the estate, Gilda assists in the kitchen, feeding the airmen billeted there. Good news from the continent gives false hope that the war will soon be over, and Eleanor makes plans to host a celebratory Christmas, hoping that the unwed mother of her grandson can be persuaded to come. In some kind of final insult to the war-battered people of England, the V-2 bombs come on the scene, and the threat they pose unnerves even the steady Priscilla Armstrong. The destruction of one such explosion is far-reaching and ultimately risks the safety and happiness of those many miles from its impact. Eleanor and her staff at Greystone Manor once again provide a safe haven to those in harm's way, welcoming lonely newcomers, including an innocent, orphaned love child, who finds herself in a grownup world she cannot understand. Eleanor works selflessly toward the physical comfort of those in her home, investing personally in their ultimate happiness, while her own heart is rent in two by the agonizing hope that her son is still alive.

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All of Meredith Kennon's books are available for just $8.99 on Amazon for the Kindle.

Under the Same Umbrella

Tattered Letters

Almost Enough

Now on Amazon

Meredith's third book, Almost Enough, is now available on Amazon.com.  You can buy it here.

Now Available

Meredith's third book, Almost Enough, is now available to buy here. It will be available on Amazon soon. Enjoy!

Almost Enough

Meredith's THIRD book is expected to be released November 1, 2009. She has been working very hard and already has ideas for the forth book!

Almost Enough
By Meredith Kennon

On the morning of her seventeenth birthday, any hopes that Gilda Morris might have had for a special day are dashed when she hears on the wireless that England has declared war with Germany. Handicapped from birth, Gilda does not get an opportunity to do her bit in the war until four years later. Her neighbor and friend, Mrs. Eleanor Wood, determinedly gets Gilda called up to do war work at her home, Grey Stone Manor in Warwickshire, where she provides accommodation for airmen stationed at the nearby training field. Within hours of her service, Gilda is able to forget her own disabilities as she witnesses the many sacrifices made by others. Out from under her mother’s critical eye, Gilda begins to realize that there is more to her than her deformities. She becomes part of a world to which she had never before been exposed, sees firsthand the vagaries of human nature, and believes that it is almost enough until she finds herself very much in love.

Now on Amazon

Meredith's second book, Tattered Letters, is now available on Amazon.com. You can buy it here.

Tattered Letters

Meredith's second book is set to be released around April 1, 2009.

Tattered Letters
By Meredith Kennon

An unknown casualty of World War II surfaces some thirty-three years later, when in 1979, Dale Johnson is forced to confess to his married daughter, Beth Anne Mosher, that she was the product of a war-time love affair. His wife was duped, he admits, into adopting his own child when her biological mother thought that she was dying of tuberculosis in England. Sick and afraid to take her illegitimate daughter home to her rigid parents, Maggie Paxton made the mistake of a lifetime and sent her baby girl to America and then lived to regret it. It is not until the adopting mother dies of breast cancer and the daughter fears the same for herself that her father is compelled to tell her that she had been adopted and regrettably never told. He opens what he fears will be Pandora’s Box, but what proves instead to be the revival of long lost truths that no one person could have guessed, because each of them held only one piece of the puzzle. As the pieces of truth come together and trust evolves, old and new romances can come out of the darkness of deception and into the light of day.

Now on Amazon

Under the Same Umbrella is now available at Amazon.com. You can buy it here.

Under the Same Umbrella

Meredith's first book was released today. It is now available to buy here. It will also be available on Amazon soon.

Under the Same Umbrella
By Meredith Kennon
After her mother's death and at her request, thirty-six year old Londoner, Carrie Townsend, travels to America to meet a stranger, Janet Larson, her mother's long-distance friend of many years. Travel-weary and broken-hearted, Carrie knows only that she is to learn things from Janet that her mother, Rachel, could not bear to tell her herself. She has always known that she was born on Long Island in 1969 to an unwed mother, but until now had never thought to question her mother's connection to Janet and the history that they shared. This meeting is not easy for Janet either who has learned over time to put her past tragedies to rest and live peacefully in the present. Neither Carrie nor Janet can foresee that their future happiness hinges on their connection to each other and the past. In the safety of the small town of Settler's Grove, Carrie finds comfort for her grief, balm for her guilt, companionship in the form of a six year old boy, and finally romance when she least expects it.

About the Author

Meredith Kennon (a pseudonym) was born and raised in a rural area of South Dakota. She has six children and twenty-two grandchildren from whom she receives a daily addition of writing material. Through her marriage to a utilities consultant, she has lived in many regions of the United States and has enjoyed and been educated by its great diversity. She is currently living near Sioux Falls, South Dakota and is working on her second novel, Tattered Letters. When she isn't writing, she teaches piano and works on the beautification of her old home with her husband to whom she has been married for thirty-nine years.