A Distant Paradise

by Jean S. MacLeod

To help her sister Susie, who had had a skiing accident, Barbara had agreed at very short notice to take Susie’s place as ship’s nurse on a cruise liner sailing to the Caribbean and Panama. The job had its enjoyable aspects—one of them being Adam Conyers, the ship’s surgeon! — but there were problems too, among them Barbara’s old love Gordon Ross, who suddenly turned up again, wanting to take things up where they had left off. There were more serious difficulties too — just what had Susie let her in for?

274 pages, Trade Paperback

First published January 1, 1984

About the author

Jean Sutherland MacLeod was born in 20 January 1908 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was the daughter of Elizabeth Allen and John MacLeod. Her father, who was a civil engineer, moved with jobs. Her education began at Bearsden Academy, continued in Swansea and ended in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She moved to North Yorkshire, England to marry with Lionel Walton on 1 January 1935, an electricity board executive, who died in 1995. They had a son, David Walton, who died two years before her. She passed away on 11 April 2011 at 103 years.

Jean S. MacLeod started writing stories for the magazine The People's Friend, before sold her first romance novel in 1936. She wrote contemporary romances, most of them were set in her native Scotland, or in exotic places like Spain or Caribbean, places that she normally visited for documented. From 1948 to 1965, she also published under the pseudonym of Catherine Airlie. She published her last novel in 1996, a year after her husband death. She was member of the Romantic Novelists' Association, where she met the mediatic writer Barbara Cartland, who was not too friendly.