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Sep 7, 1928 — Jul 4, 1960· 31 yrs

UNITED KINGDOM AUTHOR · FICTION · ROMANCE

Nerina Hilliard

Also known as: Norma Kathleen Hemming, Norma K. Hemming

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Norma Kathleen Hemming was born on September 1928 in Ilford, Essex, one district of London, England, UK., she migrated to Australia in 1948. She the Australia's first significant female science fiction writer. She wrote for local pulp magazine Thrills Incorporated and enthusiastically participated in the Australian fan scene. She was a founding member of the femme fan group Vertical Horizons, and wrote and acted for the SF theatrical group The Arcturian Players. She returned to international publishing in the late 1950s with stories in Nebula SF and New Worlds. She also wrote eight romance novels for Mills & Boon under the pseudonym of Nerina Hilliard, only one was published before her death, through these she had a long posthumous career, because her romances were published from 1958 to 1976, returning royalties to her estate for three decades. She passed away at the age of 31 of breast canceron 4 July 1960 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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IN THE LATE AUTUMN OF 1937, IN THE STEADY BEAT OF North Sea rain that comes with dawn in that season, the tramp freighter Nicaea stood at anchor off the Belgian city of Ostend.

— from Dark star, 1991

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#1

Dark Intruder

4.0 (8)

Carefree, content, young Kerry Derwin wanted life to go on forever just the way it was. To Kerry, love was a lot of nonsense. Certainly she wasn't interested in marrying and settling down. And every one in the village knew it. So she wasn't very pleased at the upheaval caused by the arrival of a film unit making a movie on the moors. As for the star of the film, Paul Devron, he was conceited and a confirmed ladies' man. Kerry had no intention of adding herself to his long list of conquests. But that, of course, was before she actually met Paul Devron...

#2

Teachers Must Learn

3.5 (4)

Laurel was only too pleased to give up schoolteaching in grey, cold England for a while and go out to spend an extended holiday with her brother on the little island of Ladrana, off Portuguese East Africa. She arrived on the island, however, to discover that nearly everyone there, her brother included, seemed bent on arranging a marriage for her - with, of all the unlikely people, Landrana's forbidding overlord, Stephen Barrington! The whole thing was the more ridiculous as both the people concerned, Laurel and Stephen, had not the slightest interest in the project - not, that is, until Stephen's former love, the glamorous Roberta Fransom, turned up, and Laurel had to acknowledge her true feelings, The dignified thing to do seemed to be to retreat, leaving Roberta in triumphant possession - but Laurel was made of sterner stuff .. .

#3

Sister to Meryl

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Christine felt very strongly about Julian Galveston, who appeared to have nothing better to do with his time than break up her sister's marriage. So Christine decided to tackle him on the subject--and found herself getting into very deep waters.

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