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Jan Tempest
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Irene Maude Mossop was born on 6 December 1904 in Woking, Surrey, England, UK, she was the elder child of Maude Binford Eyre and Robert Mossop, a solicitor, later she had one bothers. She was educated privately.
She started writing very young, and after her father death, she started to publishing as Irene Mossop Girl School's novels. In 1934, she married the recently widowed and ex-RAF officer Charles John Swatridge (1896–1964), they moved to a Devon farm, which her husband ran in a gentlemanly fashion and she continued writing. 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, and years later as Leslie Lance, after his husband's death in 1964 she continued using the pseudonyms. In 1950s, she had serious discussions with Alan Boon of Mills & Boon about her novel Without A Honeymoon when she introduced the idea of an illegitimate child, that he felt she would encounter difficulties with the Irish audience. Irene Mossop died on 26 October 1988.
Book List in Order: 49 titles
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House of the Pines
- 1946
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A sense of evil... a mysterious ghost... and a young girl torn between old love and a new love.... Characters: A frightened, neurotic young wife, a self-centered man, a terrified child, and a handsome mysterious stranger. A frightened, neurotic...
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Cinderella Had Two Sisters
- Jan-1948
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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. Besid...
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Ask Me Again // Nurse Willow's Ward
- Jan-1955
- / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: Ask Me Again. When two devoted sisters love the same man, there is bound to be unhappiness; especially in a case like this, where young Dr. Fyncham couldn't make up his mind between Willow, the competent nurse, and Rose, the sw...
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Will Not Now Take Place
- 1957
- / Contemporary Romance
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From Book 1: A psychological crime thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, S. J. Watson, and Sophie HannahI concentrated hard, desperately listening for something familiar, the sound of life. I heard nothing. Just my own breaths and the wind, wh...
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Because There Is Hope
- Jan-1958
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Before Hope Arnott and Charlotte Barton had been long in the Cornish village of Port Trezillian they had become objects of interest to two attractive bachelors: Dr. Michael Denstre and 'the new young Vicar', Stephen Wentworth. Was it because of this ...
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The Youngest Sister // Jubilee Hospital
- Jan-1958
- / Contemporary Romance
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Original title: The Youngest Sister. Verna's career was going very well. At twenty-three she was the youngest Sister the Jublilee Hospital had ever had and she was too overshadowed by Daphne. ...
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That Nice Nurse Nevin
- 1963
- / Contemporary Romance
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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? ...
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The Way We Used to Be
- Jan-1965
- / Romance
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"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 ap...
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Doctor from Nowhere
- Aug-1978
- / Romance
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Chosen to act as duty nurse at the annual local Horse Show, Denise Nevin dreads the occasion. For she has to contend with seeing her beautiful childhood home taken over by the hospital - and confronting her old love, Eamonn Crail. It was a blessing f...
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