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Elizabeth Hoy
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Alice Nina Conarain was born in Dublin, Ireland. She married Mr. Hoysradt. She worked as a nurse, secretary-receptionist, and staff member of the Daily News in London, England, UK. She started publishing romance novels in 1930s at Mills & Boon under the pseudonym of Elizabeth Hoy, she also wrote as Nina Conarain at Arcadia House. She wrote over 70 romance novels from 1933 to 1980.
Book List in Order: 72 titles
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Sally in the Sunshine = Nurse Tennant
- Jan-1937
- / Contemporary Romance
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The steamship Morning Glory was setting out on a southern sunshine cruise and their nursing sister had fallen ill at the last moment. Thus Sally found herself with the most interesting nursing assignment she could have imagined. And much to her surpr...
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You Took My Heart = Doctor Garth
- Jan-1939
- / Contemporary Romance
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For most of her life Joan Langden had known Doctor Garth, an important surgeon with a prestigious reputation. He had always made her feel she was someone special to him; she thought she understood him. But on her first day of nursing at St. Angela's ...
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Come Back, My Dream = Nurse in Training
- Jan-1942
- / Contemporary Romance
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"I want to do important work!" Christy Denison had wanted both a husband and a career. Her fiancé, Brent Delsey, had not agreed. And so their engagement had failed, and eventually her career, too. But Christy believed in useful work as a cure for t...
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Proud Citadel
- Jan-1942
- / Contemporary Romance
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Judy Somers had well and truly burned her boats when she went out to Morocco to marry Glenwell Grant, against the wishes of her family. Where was she to turn when she realized that another woman was threatening her marriage? Hero: Heroine: Jud...
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It's Wise to Forget
- Jan-1945
- / Contemporary Romance
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"Wearing that dress will bring bad luck." But Sally shrugged off superstition and wore her wedding dress to the shipboard dance anyway. After all, she was planning to tell Ronnie Calvin, the fiancee she had seen for three years, that the marriage was...
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To Win a Paradise
- Jan-1947
- / Contemporary Romance
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Ann was wildly excited at arriving in North Africa with her father on an archaeological expedition. Her excitement, however, was tinged with regret when she fell instantly in love with Paul Tarrant, an Englishman who had been brought up among the Ara...
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The Vanquished Heart
- Jan-1949
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When You Have Found Me
- Jan-1951
- / Contemporary Romance
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Although Cathleen Trent of Perunia Road was raised in a middle class London suburb, by her doctor father and sensible stepmother, she yearned to spend her vacation in Connemara where her mother had lived in Castle Osborne as a girl. When the mistress...
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White Hunter
- Jan-1951
- / Contemporary Romance
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He would hardly speak to her! The sudden, unexpected assignment to go on a government safari in Tanganyika was the chance and challenge of a lifetime for Brenda Somers. But an even greater challenge was her task of convincing the unconventional...
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So Loved and So Far
- Jan-1954
- / Contemporary Romance
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How Gail welcomed the opportunity of taking a job in a remote part of Southern Ireland! It would be wonderful to get away from London with its unhappy associations, its nagging memories of the man whom she had loved without, it seemed, inspiring any ...
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Who Loves Believes
- Jan-1954
- / Contemporary Romance
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Which should she choose? Tod, kind, reliable, rich, who could do so much for her mother and sisters -- or Paul, poor, proud, free and dangerously attractive? And had she the choice, indeed? Did Paul even care for her? These were the problems for ...
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If Love Were Wise
- Jan-1954
- / Contemporary Romance
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Even before Sylvia had exchanged a word with David Darrant, she knew she disliked him...an arrogant, conceited know-all, who was using his money to take advantage of better farmers than himself. So different form charming, sensitive, elusive Peter......
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Young Doctor Kirkdene
- Jan-1955
- / Contemporary Romance
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Doctor Kirkdene had made it quite plain that as a rising young medic he considered domestic entanglements and distractions as hindrances. But Nurse Lindy couldn't help hoping that in spite of all his theorizing he would eventually come to love her!...
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Snare the Wild Heart
- Jan-1955
- / Contemporary Romance
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Eileen would do anything for her beloved Inishbawn and the sturdy Irish folk who made their homes there. So when an arrogant stranger decided to film the island for his own selfish purposes, Eileen resolved to stop him. Things didn't turn out quite...
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Because of Doctor Danville
- Jan-1956
- / Contemporary Romance
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Tracey Danville was young, handsome, rich and charming, but for a time he seemed to Meg little short of an evil intruder. He had already broken up her promising romance with ambitious young doctor John Allendale. Now John had come back into her life ...
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My Heart Has Wings
- Jan-1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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Jan's busy life was one long rush; a full day's office work for a most exacting boss (a brilliant but temperamental aircraft designer), then housekeeping for her father, sister and brother, on a frighteningly inadequate income, in their inconvenient ...
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Do Something Dangerous
- Jan-1958
- / Contemporary Romance
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Sea voyages did odd things to people. And Sally decided that she was no exception. She'd been employed on the ocean liner for only a few days, yet there she was falling in love with a man she scarcely knew, and furthermore, a man obviously in lov...
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City of Dreams
- Jan-1959
- / Contemporary Romance
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What could be more exciting, especially to an eager art student than to spend the whole summer in the beautiful city of Venice? Julie could hardly believe her good fortune as she set off to work for three months for a real Italian Contessa, in a Vent...
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Dear Fugitive
- Jan-1960
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When her sister eloped, Susan felt it her duty to rush after Jan and to try to bring her back -- and lost her job in the process. There were compensations, however, notably in the person of Iain, an attractive farmer. But Susan had never considered t...
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Dark Horse, Dark Rider
- Jan-1960
- / Contemporary Romance
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From their very first meeting, the sparks had flown between Serena and Kirk, and she bitterly resented what she considered his unsrupulous behaviour towards her beloved grandfather. In time she came to realize how mistaken she was, and to revise her ...
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Homeward the Heart
- Jan-1964
- / Contemporary Romance
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What was the secret of her father's past. His dying words hinted of a terrible crime, of a life Jennifer knew nothing about. Why had Jennifer's father changed his name? Why, on his deathbed, had he asked to go to his old home in Ireland and seek his ...
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Flowering Desert
- Jan-1965
- / Contemporary Romance
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Like an oasis, she found a love to shelter her when her need was greatest… The scent of jasmine and lemon trees, a sickle moon hanging in the desert sky, hot winds blowing from the Sahara -- Lorraine's holiday in Tunisia promised to be an en...
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The Faithless One
- Jan-1966
- / Contemporary Romance
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Molly had loved Brian Desmond dearly for a long time, so she was heartbroken when he announced that he was going to marry the beautiful actress Lana Treeves. It was a situation she could have borne better if she had thought that Lana could ever mak...
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Honeymoon Holiday
- Jan-1967
- / Contemporary Romance
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Marnie's holiday in Italy should have been her honeymoon, but when the wedding was called off at the last moment she decided to go ahead with the holiday on her own. So it was not really sensible of her to go and fall in love with a charming Italian ...
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Be More Than Dreams
- Aug-1968
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Anne Lester was delighted with her French villa--an unexpected legacy from Great-aunt Martha. Then she found the canceled will. Since she thought Garth, the disinherited nephew, was off exploring in Peru, it was a shock when he turned up at the vil...
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Music I Heard With You
- Jul-1969
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It was a comedown for Claire to have to live in a tumbledown castle in the west of Ireland, after the life of luxury she had been used to -- and Doctor Dermot MacDara's scornful attitude towards 'poor little rich girls' didn't help to make it more be...
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It Happened in Paris
- Mar-1970
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Paris in the spring, an interesting job as secretary-companion to a famous artist, and her old love, Martin Varney, very much in the picture again -- what more could Molly want? But Molly had reckoned without the scheming and jealousy of the woma...
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Into a Golden Land
- May-1971
- / Contemporary Romance
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Could she remain indifferent? Seeing Brett Meredith in the oasis town of Sidi bou Kef was the last thing that Alison Warrender expected. What was he doing in this out of the way North African hospital. Alison was having a fascinating time in Al...
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African Dream
- Oct-1971
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Pat was looking forward to rejoining her family in Kenya after years of absence - but she hadn't expected to find that she now had a stepmother. True, the stepmother was quite kindly disposed towards her, but all the same, she didn't really want Pat ...
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Immortal Flower
- Jan-1972
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It certainly boosted her deflated ego! Mandy knew how lucky she was to be working as a secretary in Tunisia -- and it didn't exactly detract from the glamour to have the attractive Ramon al Hassan attracted to her. But even before Steve Her...
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That Island Summer
- Feb-1973
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Jennie's idyllic life with her father on the Adriatic island of Zelen was disturbed by the arrival of Glyn Harney. She found herself unable to stop thinking about him. But was his own interest in herself sincere-or that of an unscrupulous opportuni...
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The Girl in the Green Valley
- Dec-1973
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Marnie had left London and an unhappy romance to work at a ski resort in the French Alps. 'See you at the ski slopes,' she had sad to Robert Tallant the day before she went. She certainly didn't imagine that he would take her literally an...
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Shadows on the Sand
- Aug-1974
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Alison had been offered a wonderful opportunity to work on an archaeological expedition near Cairo, and she was sure she would love every minute. But the domineering Scott Crane seemed determined to spoil everything. How dared he interfere!...
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The Blue Jacaranda
- Apr-1975
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When Lena received startling news of an opportunity to visit Windara, the farm in Queensland which her great-uncle owned, she did not hesitate to fly out there. But on her arrival she found that the situation at Windara had changed -- and that her...
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