Jan Tempest
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Description
Irene Maude Mossop was born December 6, 1904 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK, she was the elder child of Maude Binford Eyre and Robert Mossop, a solicitor, later they had one son. She was educated privately, and - the early death of her father making it necessary to earn a living - turned to writing at a young age. She published girls' school stories, and other children's novels as Irene Mossop. In 1934, Irene married ex-RAF officer Charles John Swatridge (1896-1964), and moved with him to Middlecombe Farm, near Kingsbridge, Devon, in 1942. After her marriage, she started to wrote gothic and romance novels, first as Jan Tempest and later as Fay Chandos. In collaboration with her husband, she published as Theresa Charles, years later, her husband published some novels as Leslie Lance, and after his death she continued using the pseudonym. In 1950s, Irene had serious discussions with Alan Boon of Mills & Boon about her novel Without A Honeymoon when she introduced the idea of a illegitimate child, that he felt she would encounter difficulties with the Irish audience. She passed away on October 26, 1988.
Books
Cinderella had two sisters
Esmeralda and Jacobina have a younger sister Cindy. Alda is plain, but a musician with good taste. Jac is fat, placid, and quite insecure. But Cindy is pretty, blonde, blue-eyed, and popular. Alda is, in truth, the real Cinderella of the story. Besides being the focal point of the narrative, she does the kitchen work and generally looks after the others.
The Youngest Sister
Verna's career was going very well. At twenty-three she was the youngest Sister the Jublilee Hospital had ever had. But at home, too, she was the youngest sister, and that was rather different. Overshadowed by bossy Ellice, and most of all, by the beautiful and charming Daphne. Daphne collected and discarded admirers with ease. Verna was determined that the man she fell in love with would be a man Daphne had never met. But when she seemed to have him, Daphne once again came on the scene to complicate matters.
The Way We Used to Be
“Whatever you do, don't marry a doctor,” Dorinda Manson counselled her daughter Leonie. But that didn't stop Leonie marrying Robbie Brydene, the local vet. Dorinda would have done better to advise her, "when you marry, keep away from your mother's apron-strings." For when Leonie's marriage ran into trouble it did not occur to her that her mother's continual 'help' and financial assistance had caused the trouble.
Lyra, my love
Lyra Haughton, an Archdeacon's daughter seemed to be in an eternal dilemma. Her father seemed to her to be ridiculously strict, and incapable of seeing her as anything other than a wayward child - which she most certainly was not. It seemed that her long-time boyfriend, attorney James Mallard, couldnt see the real Lyra either, and wasn't prepared to commit himself to marriage. Handsome young playboy Mike O'Donnell was prepared to give Lyra a chance - but deep inside Lyra knew that her own feelings were still being disregarded. Then she met Adam Denver, whom she mistook for a very attractive fisherman, not realising that he was in fact the new Vicar of Port Petroc...
Mistress of Martinscombe
Rodney owed her boy"s name to her father's desire for a son and heir. When her father died he left the farm to her in hope that she would take over the running of it. Duty called, but would mean giving up her wonderful job and seeing Eddie again, Eddie whom she had loved but who had married Mellora instead. When she did take over Martinscombe, the big problem turned out to be Noel Alsford. Why was he so eager to tell her how to run her life?
That Nice Nurse Nevin
The transformation of rich and carefree Eunice Nevin into a hard-working nurse had been slow and often very painful. Would the love she had found for her new life be strong enough to overcome her nostalgia for the old?