As a minister's wife and the mother of two, William and Elizabeth, she still found many opportunities to pen short stories, poetry and newspaper columns before embarking on her first novel, which sold to the firm of Mills & Boon in 1956.
Die Mutter zweier Kinder, William und Elizabeth schrieb zahlreiche Kurzgeschichten, Poesie und Zeitungskolumnen, bevor sie 1956 ihren ersten Roman an den Verlag Mills & Boon verkaufte.