Apart from writing, her passions are music (she plays in several amateur orchestras) horses, wine, architecture and the English countryside.

They had have three children, Hannah, Jane and Michael. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. She currently lives in London with her husband. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Fleur by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles () Paperback 8 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 17.98 6 Used from 17.97 Paperback 5.43 15 Used from 1.46 Publisher Pan Books See all details The Amazon Book Review Book recommendations, author interviews, editors' picks, and more. Petersburg, for the feelings provoked by Count Sergei Kirov, the vibrant, enigmatic Russian with a tragic secret. Intelligent and independent, she is also utterly innocent in matters of love and the ways of men. She is also the author of Bill Slider Mystery series, and writes under the pen names Elizabeth Bennett and Emma Woodhouse. Young Fleur Hamilton is truly a product of the era.

In 1993 she won the Romantic Novelists' Association Romantic Novel of the Year Award with Emily, the third volume of her Kirov Saga, a trilogy set in nineteenth century Russia. The series was originally intended to comprise twelve volumes, but it has proved so popular that it has now been extended over thirty. The birth of the MORLAND DYNASTY series enabled Cynthia Harrod-Eagles to become a full-time writer in 1979.

She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 won the Young Writers' Award with The Waiting Game. She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC. But their two countries are on the brink of. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy. In the gilded splendor of his city, Fleur falls in love with Kirov and with the mystical, barbaric beauty of Russia.