Eileen Goudge's Novels

Eileen Goudge was born in San Mateo, California, and is the author of many novels (and even a cookbook) including a series of novels called the “Garden of Lies”, “Sweet Valley High” series (for teens), and a mystery series called “Cypress Bay” series. Goudge has also written other stand alone works for readers of all kinds. She is the wife of a film critic; who she says is not her first but will be her last marriage. They met when he interviewed her on air on his radio talk show (he called her after she asked him to and they talked for three hours), his name is Sandy Kenyon. He is known as the “taxi TV” film critic. After their first three hour chat, it started a ritual where they talked on the phone every night; due to the fact that he lived in Arizona and she in New York. When they met face to face, it was love at first sight, even though they knew each other and have been married since 1996.

She is someone who hears what people tell her, and then puts it in one of her novels. Her writing is what funded her and her family's life while she was married a few times, a single mother, and moving to New York. Throughout all of that,
The novel was released in 1990. The series is set in the forties. Sylvie is married to a man named Gerald who can afford to give her the life that she wanted while she was growing up. When they got married, eight years ago, the country was going through the Great Depression. She wants to start a family with her new husband, but is unable to love this man. Not entirely. Their handyman, Nikos (who is Greek and earthy), shows her what passion is and gets her pregnant. She knows that her husband will never accept a baby with dark hair and dark eyes (knowing that it is not his). While she is giving birth, there is a fire in the hospital she is in. So she switches her baby for someone else's. It is quite a bold thing for her to do, something that will resonate throughout