That annual number rose over the next few years by the late nineties, she had published over 160 novels, most of them romances, others historical novels and romantic thrillers, achieving over 200 million sales worldwide. By the late seventies, she was an established and successful author, publishing as many as twelve novels a year with Mills and Boon. Her first historical and romantic novels were published by Robert Hale and serialised in Woman's Weekly Digest. In 1973 she signed Follow a Stranger as her most famous pseudonym: Charlotte Lamb, but later she used several other pseudonyms, among them Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf and Laura Hardy. She began her writing career as her married name Sheila Holland and as her maiden name Sheila Coates. In between raising her five children, she wrote many more novels. She had been living on the island as a tax exile since 1977 with her husband and four of her five children.Ī voracious reader, she wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot. She died suddenly on in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Isle of Man. Her husband prompted her to begin writing in the early seventies. In 1959, she married Richard Holland, then a Fleet Street journalist, later a sub-editor of The Times and a classical biographer. She attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls, worked as a typist at the Bank of England and then as a junior researcher for the BBC at Broadcasting House. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Everything, Alex thought bitterly, but his love!.Born Sheila Ann Mary Coates in 1937 at Dagenham, Essex, England. She was the recipient of everything Philippe's wealth and passion could give up.

And it was too late now to wish she had done otherwise.She was Philippe's wife, the Comtesse de Sorconne, mistress of his ancient castle in France. She had married Philippe on a wild impulsve, to save herself from being humiliated by the man she had thought she loved. Alex's eyes darkened with pain as she recalled the old adage.

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