The Far Sweet Thing

by Norrey Ford

1960. First Edition. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is clear.

192 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Noreen "Norrey" Ford born on 28 March 1907 in Kingston upon Hull, England, UK. She studied at Hull's French Convent, Ravensworth School and Appleton-le-Moors. She married James Louis Christian Dilcock (1911–2000), a Midland judge and lay preacher at Walsall's St Paul's Church. The marriage spent much time travelling the world

Norren published romance novels from 1952 to 1977 under diferent pseudonyms: Norrey Ford, Jill Christian and Christian Walford. She was the second elected Chairman (1963-1965) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and also was a former vice-president of the organization. She passed away on 1985 in Walsall, and her ashes were scattered over the fells by the Lake District.