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Catherine Airlie
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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 11 at 103 years.
MacLeod started bwriting stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before 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 Caribbean, places that she normally visited for documented. 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 death. She was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.
Book List in Order: 22 titles
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Strange Recompense
- Jan-1952
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She didn't even know her own name! Panic gripped her at the realization--she had lost her memory! Confusion and loneliness threatened to overwhelm her.... Then she came under the care of Dr. Noel Melford, a kind, handsome man who fought to rest...
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The Green Rushes
- Jan-1953
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"The wild geese went away that morning and never came again, and with them went the luck of the Corrohans." Lynn Jeffries already knew the superstition about the Corrohans of Ardclunny when she came to take up her dilapidated heritage. Whatever the ...
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Nobody's Child
- Jan-1954
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At the death of Olga Dainton, her two daughters were left with no very inspiring prospects. So it was natural that they should welcome the invitation of an old friend to spend a holiday in her castle among the Austrian mountains -- particularly as th...
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A Wind Sighing
- Jan-1954
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It was in a mood of furious rebellion that Jean Lorimer met Neil, heir to the lovely Scottish island that had been her home since the day she was born. She regarded him not as a kinsman, but as a stranger and a usurper; and the fact that he was evid...
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The Valley of Desire
- Jan-1955
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Barbara loved her first experience of the Canary Islands, the contrast of lush tropical beauty with starkly bare mountain peaks, the lazy Spanish charm of the people. But she could not relax and be happy, for she was there as a result of a deception ...
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The Ways of Love
- Jan-1955
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The story of three people, a passionate girl, a beautiful, talented woman and a silent, steadfast man, all linked and dominated by a half-understood tragedy; set in the remote beauty of a lonely Highland glen....
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The Mountain of Stars
- Jan-1956
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Margaret's visit to Norway began tragically, and tragedy seemed to brood, too, over Thor Revold's house in that land of mountains and fjords. When would the clouds roll away and let her see the brightness of the stars? ...
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Land of Heart's Desire
- Jan-1957
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Christine was of two minds about her future. Although she loved her beautiful, Scottish island home, she wanted to live in the south to follow her career as an artist. An arrogant stranger challenged her to make a decision. And strangely enough, i...
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The Last of the Kintyres
- Jan-1959
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For years, Elizabeth Stanton had wanted to go to Dromore, where her mother had spent all her girlhood. Something about the old romance between her mother and the laird had captured her imagination, colouring her thoughts of two people who had loved a...
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The Country of the Heart
- Jan-1961
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Jane, convalescing after an illness, needed an open-air, relaxing job. The offer of a post as nurse to a charming small boy on a cruise to the Canary Islands seemed exactly the right thing. Jane never imagined that her "relaxing" job would lead her i...
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One Summer's Day
- Jan-1961
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After years in America, Aunt Betsy Bellinger was determined to settle down in her native Scotland. She planned to buy the little Hebridian island of Corrae, and took a Ailsa along to inspect it and approve. But how could she, knowing what parting wit...
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The Unlived Year
- Jan-1962
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What happens when you have to sell a property to a man whom, for some inexplicable reason, you do not like? Gay Denison found she had to bow to the inevitable, which meant that from now on Stephen Royle would be virtually living on her doorstep -- an...
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Passing Strangers // Nurse Jane in Teneriffe
- Jan-1963
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When her sister died, Nurse Jane Lambert went out to the Canary Islands at her brother-in-law's request to help care for his children. She had always loved Felipe, and could not help hoping that now perhaps he might come to care for her. But she arri...
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The Sea Change // Doctor Overboard
- Jan-1965
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"We're never had a trouble-free voyage", Doctor David Rodney, ship's surgeon of the Avalon, told Mairi. "Five hundred passengers and seven thousand sea miles never add up to a surgeon's holiday. And the current cruise proved no exception. Mairi's tro...
