I have a strong relationship with the past just like Eleanor, the heroine of debut novel In the Shadow of Winter. My inspiration to write about 1940s Britain comes from the traces that still live around us today. It comes from the tales that my elderly neighbours tell, and from the details and contradictions that have been recorded from a time we know so much about and yet no two people ever describe it in quite the same way.This is what first inspired me to write In the Shadow of Winter and to set the intensely emotional adventure that unfolds within it, with all of its danger, romance and mystery, in the winter of 1947.My published titles include In the Shadow of Winter, The War Widow, The Antique Dealer's Daughter and Mrs P's Book of Secrets (published as The Book Ghost in the USA). I am published by One More Chapter. I'm married and I live in the Cotswolds, UK.
Has been credited under names of Lorna Gray and Virginia Pound (her birthname), but today goes only by Adrian Booth.
As of mid-2001 she is one of the last surviving cast members who appeared in the early shorts of The Three Stooges at Columbia.
Appeared as a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, NC, in July 1996 and July 2005.
In June of 2001 she made a rare public appearance at the "Ray and Sharon Courts Hollywood Collectors Show" in North Hollywood, CA, where she signed autographs for fans.
The min-bio claims she was "discovered" by Columbia Pictures. She made five films for Paramount, using her real name, "before" she made any films for Columbia.
After retiring from acting in 1951 she worked for many years with the World Adoption International Fund, an adoption agency, founded by actress Jane Russell.
Was an ordained ministry.
Upon her death, she was cremated by the Neptune Society of Sherman Oaks, California, and her ashes were given to a longtime friend.
