Frances Murray
Description
Rosemary Frances Sutherland was born on 10 February 1928 in Lanark, Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK, near Glasgow. She was educated at the University of Glasgow (1945-1947), in 1965 obtained a M.A. at University of St. Andrews and in 1966 a diploma in education. She worked as a teacher of History at Perth Academy in Scotland from 1966 to 1972. Since 1976, as principal teacher of history, at Guernsey Ladies' College in St. Peter Port. Rosemary Booth wrote her first Children's novel in 1966 under the pseudonym of Frances Murray. In 1976, her novel The Burning Lamp won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
Books
Castaway
Recounts the adventure of a couple living on an island in the Coral Sea north of Australia. Tells what happened to them emotionally after being forced to marry by the Australian government.
Red Rowan Berry
SAVAGE DESIRE! RAPACIOUS GREED! A TENDER LOVE THAT WOULD NOT DIE... High-tempered, headstrong Janet Laidlaw was one of the most beautiful young women in all Scotland. She would have been content to stay on simply working for her dead mother's farm, nurtured by her love for Simon Lamington, the handsome young lawyer who had come to Loch Lomond. But her brother had betrayed her, and her father had sold her to a ruthless English lord to bolster his own vaulting ambitions. Determined to have an heir, her highborn husband used her viciously until she was driven to a desperate escape. Fired by a rare courage, sustained by her uncommon wits, Janet clung secretly to love. But to marry Simon now would mean bigamy. Though all the world believed her dead, still she was not free, still her life hung in the balance, and she could not escape the reckoning that lay ahead.
The dear colleague
A fascinating novel of Victorian romance and intrigue. Intelligent, pretty, but without "prospects," Elizabeth McLeod was resigned to her native Scotland and living out her days in quiet spinsterhood. But that was before she became engaged to a man whom she had known for one hour and found herself at the very center of a plot to overthrow the government of France... A marriage of convenience... that's all it was. Hector's reputation was threatened by scandal in Paris, and Elizabeth lacked a roof over her head. Each needed to get married. So they married each other. It would be a no-nonsense marriage. A business venture. Hector would carry out his assignments in the Foreign Office, while Elizabeth played hostess and ran the household. How could they have known that soon Elizabeth's very life -- and the fate of an entire nation -- would depend on the strength of Hector's love for her?
Ponies on the Heather
Jo McKissock moves to Elderbraes, a Scottish hill farm. Though not keen at first, moving does mean she gets a pony.
The Burning Lamp
It is debatable whether Florence Nightingale had ever met a young woman quite like Phemie Witherspoon. Perhaps in the unremarkable but self-possessed scrap of a girl from Glascow she recognized something of her own redoubtable spirit. At all events, she accepted Phemie's reasons for leaving home and enrolled her to train as a nurse - one of the new breed who were to convert a degrading job of hospital nursing into a vocation.
The Heroine's Sister
VENETIAN INTERLUDE Abandoned by her brazen and beautiful older sister in a Venice smoldering with treachery and betrayal, young respectable Mary Porteous found herself destitute and alone. She'd all but given up hope of surviving on her artistic talents, when a mysterious letter arrived, informing her that she had been highly recommended to the grand Palazzo Murano. Baffled but heartened, Mary arrived at the Palazzo and was instantly ensconced in the household. Only then did she discover her unknown benefactor to be none other than Todaro del Doria, a nobleman whose amorous adventures were infamous but whose quiet personal affairs were too dangerous to reveal, a man she didn't know - but with whom she'd soon share an intrigue of the heart that could cost them both their lives...
White Hope
Chas Bentinck has a famous grandfather who was a jockey, and that’s what he wants to be too. His parents are not at all keen on the idea, and he also has a disability which makes difficulties too. There is also opposition from a gang set on stopping the horse White Hope from winning.
Brave kingdom
A magnificent saga of courage and ambition set in Scotland and New Zealand. Setting out for New Zealand in the 1840s to find her brother, Scots blacksmith's daughter Hannah Lindsay inherits her share of a sheep station and settles in the South Island hills, the first of four generations of pioneers
Ponies and Parachutes
Jo McKissock and her friend Joe are looking forward to all the riding they will get in the holidays on her uncle's Highland sheep farm, and to the local show which includes a gymkhana where along comes her strange Canadian cousin Chris, to sneer at them and apparently to stay for ever. As if there were not enough disturbance from him, there is a gang of payroll robbers supposed to be in the neighbourhood and everyone has to take spacial precautions. All in all it's a marvel that they come to take part, in no small way, in the paratroops' manoeuvres....