UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND AUTHOR · FICTION · LARGE TYPE
Jean S. MacLeod
Also known as: Catherine Airlie (pseud.), Jane Sutherland MacLeod
Jean Sutherland MacLeod was born in 20 January 1908 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Allen and John MacLeod. Her father, who was a civil engineer, moved with jobs. Her education began at Bearsden Academy, continued in Swansea and ended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She moved to North Yorkshire, England to marry with Lionel Walton on 1 January 1935, an electricity board executive, who died in 1995. They had a son, David Walton, who died two years before her. She passed away on 11 April 2011 at 103 years. MacLeod started by writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before she sold her first romance novel in 1936. She wrote contemporary romances. Most of them were set in her native Scotland, or in exotic places like Spain or the Caribbean, places that she visited for research. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She published her last novel in 1996, a year after her husband’s death. She was a member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.
Most acclaimed
The Olive Grove
In Greece, among her mother's people, Rhea Langford believed she would become part of a happy family again. She knew nothing of the language and customs, but a keen desire and the present of Nicos Metaxis went a long way to fulfilling her dream. But was this to be destroyed by the very thing that had tied her to her Greek roots? The copy of an ancient necklet - given to her mother by her father - proved to be the missing original, and she feared Nicos would never trust her again.
The Gated Road
Jane Thornton's life was in ruins An accident had destroyed her dancing career, and her fiance and her own sister had fallen suddenly in love. Jane had the weight of more than one grief in her heart the day she went to High Tor to break a piece of bad news to Adam Drummond, her sister's fiance. When she arrived, she found that her task was even harder than she imagined. The road to Adam’s farm was punctuated by gates, blocking the way to intruders, and they seemed like symbols of the barriers that he put round his own heart to keep out love. But Adam didn't need her sympathy. He needed a fiance - and he insisted that Jane take her sister's place. Yet more than one woman, it appeared, wanted to find a way through his defences. Which of them would succeed?
Moreton's Kingdom
She went for a child but stayed for a man... Katherine soon knew she was in trouble! She agreed to take a "tug-of-love" child to Scotland, out of his father's reach. Coralie the mother, obviously loved her son and was frightened for him, and Katherine believed her. Unfortunately Katherine's mission failed when Charles Moreton snatched the child -- and Katherine -- whisking them to his remote Highland home, to hold them virtual prisoners there. But Katherine learned there were two sides to every story... Whose should she believe?