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Elizabeth Margaret Luther Smith was born on 12 May 1930 in Reading, Berkshire, England, Uk. She started to work in a library at 20, and met her future husband at Library School, and worked as a librarian. During her first two years of marriage they lived in USA. They had four children. She has published over ten books with various publishing houses. She was a former vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association and she was currently the acting Membership Secretary of the RNA.

Betty O'Rourke lived in her native Reading until her death in 2006.

Books in Order: 10 titles

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  • Fiona Latimer learns that her husband Michael has died of a heart attack alone in his London flat. She is shocked but not devastated; they had led separate lives for some years. Two people arrive at the funeral, each with considerable influence on fu...



  • Hired by the autocratic Madame de Caudebec, Rowena Berenson arrives at the ancient Normandy chateau of the de Caudebec family, to take charge of producing their famous annual pageant. But Madame's elder son, Raoul, resents her intrusion; he was Pagea...



  • When Rose Turner's mother dies, life changes completely for Rose. Forced to leave London, and separated from her beloved younger brother Charlie, she has no option but to accept work as an under housemaid, in a large manor house in the country. Here ...



  • To escape from a devastating experience in connection with her job in London, Rachel Hayward goes to stay in the little Cornish village of St Morwenna's Bay. At first, it seems to be a place where nothing much ever happens, but things are not quite w...



  • Alex loves her job as a tour leader, taking groups of holidaymakers to St Petersburg, in Russia. But she is not at all pleased when she finds that Richard, her ex-boyfriend, has been assigned to her group as assistant....



  • Alison's parents emigrated to Australia, in mysterious circumstances, when she was six years old. Now, her parents dead, she is back to look after her sick Grandmother. Gran hints at secrets, but dies suddenly before they can be told. Alison returns ...



  • Why does the elderly Stavros, one-time Partisan leader, object so much to the arrival of Peter, a young German, at his Cretan village? And why is Peter so curious about the secret hideout of these long-ago Partisans? Kristina, in Crete to search for ...



  • Couples who fall in love during wartime face particular difficulties, but never more so than when one of them, Ruth Lawson, is an English girl trapped in France during the German Occupation, and the other is Captain Paul Reinhardt of the German Army....



  • When she woke up in hospital the name 'Carol Legat' was on her name tag, and although it didn't sound right she accepted it. She began a new life with a man who wanted to help her trace her past.But she wanted to forget. Gradually, the nightmare she ...






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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Betty O'Rourke has published 10 books.

Betty O'Rourke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, After Michael, was published in July 2005.

The first book by Betty O'Rourke, Pageantry of Love, was published in November 1987.

No. Betty O'Rourke does not write books in series.