Margaret Leroy

{{Short description|British novelist}}

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Margaret Leroy (born November 1951) is a British romantic novelist.Phyllis Rose The Shelf: From LEQ to LES: Adventures in Extreme Reading 0374709793 2014 "I think that Margaret Leroy is just the kind of novelist a man would not read. He might have trouble merely getting past the title of Yes, My Darling Daughter. I had some trouble myself." Her 1999 novel Trust was adapted for a British television film with a screenplay by Matthew Hall as Loving You in 2003.{{cite news|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/feb/24/tvandradio.television|title=Loving You|author=Mark Lawson|date=24 February 2003|access-date=24 January 2025}}

She was brought up in the New Forest and studied music at St Hilda's College, Oxford.{{cite web|url=https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/501929.Margaret_Leroy|title=Margaret Leroy|website=Goodreads|access-date=24 January 2025}}

Her subsequent novels include:{{cite news|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/margaret-leroy.html|title=

Books by Margaret Leroy and Complete Book Reviews|work=Publishers Weekly|access-date=24 January 2025}}

• The River House (2005)
• Yes, My Darling Daughter (2009)
• The Soldier's Wife (2011)
• A Brief Affair (2015)