FICTION · CHILDREN
Frances Murray
Also known as: Rosemary Frances Sutherland Booth
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.
Most acclaimed
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?
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.