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Leslie Lance
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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: 34 titles
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Man of the Family
- 1952
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When her parents parted company, Myra Gresham went to Canada with her father, but her sisters, Averil and Geraldine, with their mother. After her father died, making her his heiress, Myra was eager to go home, but the reunion was a shattering disapp...
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Spun by the Moon
- Jan-1960
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It was a case of love at first sight when Carolus Kern of Keswick and Kern Ltd., Devon, paid his first visit to the office of White and Brown of Sydney, Australia, and spotted Maynie Melvyn. But he did not tell the lady that he had been married befor...
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The Young Curmudgeon
- Jan-1964
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When my second cousin, Mark Gresham, returned from South Africa to claim his inheritance of Valley End farm, I wondered what had happened to the devil-may-care boy I had once adored. I did not recognise this critical, austere man. But it was no conce...
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Bride of Emersham
- Jan-1967
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Substitute Bride Jeff Emersham insisted on marrying lovely young Verity Williams -- yet she knew that his real love was mysterious, vanished Marguerite ... who could have been Verity's double! With her sudden marriage came chilling menace and t...
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No Summer Beauty
- 1967
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Janey had been a devoted companion, secretary, housekeeper and finally nurse to popular T.V. personality Roland Venton, but their marriage had been a disappointment to her in many ways. Now, at thirty-five, she was a widow, with virtually no money an...
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Nurse in the Woods = The House in the Woods
- Jan-1969
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The House in The Woods would provide Cecil Lynton with everything she had to have: a home for her orphaned niece and a job for herself, which she desperately needed for their support. All she would have to do was accept the position of nurse-governes...
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Summer People
- Jul-1969
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On holiday in Devon, Gilly Ferne fell in love with the picturesque fishing village of Spume…and with the dark-haired young farmer, Neil Vallory, who rescued her and her puppy from a precipitous cliff. When her unpredictable father, Hayley Ferne, su...
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New Lord Whinbridge
- Mar-1973
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Undaunted by past dissolutionment, Merle Heather admitted frankly that she enjoyed falling in love. This light-heart attitude exasperated her close friend Suzanna, whose husband had just left her. However, when Suzanne’s old school friend, Virginia...
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Hawk's Head
- Nov-1981
- / Contemporary Romance
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When Cousin Vicky was banished to the family’s country house on Dartmoor, to separate her from the penniless Captain with whom she had dared to fall in love, Hannah was deputed to act as Vicky’s chaperon. Hannah was no bread and butter Edwardi...
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Someone Who Cares
- Mar-1982
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All Helen's romances seemed to peter out because the men concerned would demand too much too quickly, and Helen was old-fashioned enough to believe in love and marriage. Dared she hope that this time, with Micky, it would be different? Helen was half...
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Dear Patience
- Aug-1983
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Patty's employer and flatmate was getting married, so Patty was to lose her job and her home at one blow. She feared she was losing her sweetheart, too. Dear, faithful, hard-working Chad, her loyal friend since their schooldays, had just achieved a w...
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