Light From One Star

by Netta Muskett

Sir Blaine Belding was highly respected and liked by his friends and medical colleagues alike. Then Virginia Coley came into his life. He was totally captivated and whilst she was from a world very different from his, he nonetheless made her his wife. Things have not worked out, and he has slowly realised that whilst beautiful, Virginia is shallow and they are entirely unsuited. The problem has become exacerbated as Blaine has met another woman. She not only inspires him by her courage and self-sacrifice, but also displays a gentleness and demeanour which raises the prospect of a more tender and deeper love than he has ever before experienced.

248 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1956

About the author

Netta Rachel Hill was born on 1887 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England, UK. She was educated at Kent College, Folkstone, before became teacher of Mathematics. During the World War I, she joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment, and drove an ambulance in France. In 1916, her brother, member of the Imperial Camel Corp, was killed in Egypt. After war, she worked as secretary by Lord George Riddell, 1st Baron Riddell, owerd and Managing Director of the News of the World. In 1925, she married the widower Henry Wallace Muskett (1886-1953), who has three children for his firt marriage, and they had a son, Peter Muskett, who married Judith, and had two children: Sarah-Jane and Jamie. During the World War II, she again served with the V.A.D where she taught handicrafts in British and American hospitals.

She started publishing on 1927, and she continued writing until the day of her death, and her last novel, Cloudbreak, was published posthumously on 1964. Her novels are translated to several languages, including: Spanish, French, Portuguese, Finnish, Swedish and Danish. Netta Muskett was vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association's, that created in her honour the Netta Muskett Award for new writers. She died on 29 May 1963 in Putney. In 2013, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of her death, her family started to published her novels as ebook through Amazon Kindle.

Reviews

[Sharon Ibbotson]

I loved this book. It is a product of its time, and I suspect the inspiration behind one of the mains- Virginia Coley- is Vivien Leigh. The book deals wholly with the love life of Sir Blaine Belding, a well to do brain surgeon who falls for a pretty but cold up and coming actress. He marries her, only to regret the marriage when he realises his true affection for his plain but kind hearted secretary Anna. The affairs of the characters play out over around twelve years, dealt with by the always able hand of Netta Muskett. One of her better and less sensationalist novels.