Legal name: MacPherson, Mary Jane
MacPherson, A. D. L.
Other names: Seale, Sara
Date of death: 1974-03-11
1978-10-30
Gender: n/a
Nationality: UK
Occupations: romance novelist
Short biography: Sara Seale was the pseudonym used by Mary Jane MacPherson (d. 11 March 1974) and/or A.D.L. MacPherson (d. 30 October 1978), a British writing team who published over 45 romance novels from 1932 to 1971. Seale was one of the first Mills & Boon's authors published in Germany and the Netherlands, and reached the pinnacle of her career in the 1940s and 1950s, when they earning over £3,000/year. Many of Seale's novels revisited a theme of an orphaned heroine who finds happiness, and also employed blind or disfigured (but still handsome) heroes as standard characters.

Mary Jane MacPherson began writing at an early age while still in her convent school. Besides being a writer, MacPherson was also a leading authority on Alsatian dogs, and was a judge at Crufts.

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The Third Uncle by Sara Seale

Nineteen year old Gilly's unknown new guardian not only clearly didn't want her, but was under the impression that she was just a schoolgirl, so when she went to visit him she decided to pay him back by keeping up the deception. But it was a joke that was to recoil on her when she fell in love with her 'attractive' uncle.

This was always one of my favourites and rereading it after 50 years it is still a very good read. Gilly Flower is a delight and Oliver is also a treat.

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Karen74Leigh | Dec 6, 2022 |

Time Of Grace by Sara Seale

I bought 3 used books By Sara Seale on Amazon that I read sometime during my late 20s which was in the '60s, and which I liked a lot. They are all Harlequin VERY clean romances, almost annoyingly so, but it seems I have changed and times have changed. This one I don't remember reading. It follows a usual plot line: Gavin MacKinnon, manager of a China clay mine, is appointed guardian by an old friend, of what he thinks is a little 9 year old girl, but when Tansy shows up she proves to be almost 19. The mine is owned by Jocelyn and his daughter, Stella, a very cool, calculating woman who wants Gavin for her own. A pleasant read showing Gavin and Tansy's feelings for each other from total indifference to love and Stella's designs on Gavin while being very very mean to Tansy. The love shows up on the last page in 2 or 3 sentences and one warm kiss.… (more)

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Karen74Leigh | Dec 6, 2022 |

Queen of Hearts by Sara Seale

Life in an orphanage doesn't seem the best possible preparation for a job as receptionist in an exclusive country hotel, particularly if you are nineteen and look about four years younger. But Selina Task simply treated the wealthy guests as she had treated her fellow-orphans, and, magically, it worked. She made friends even with the dragon Mrs. Bessimer, with cynical, neurotic Clive Williams, with little Paul Proctor, who was said to be such a difficult child... But by the time that Max Savant, the wealthy owner of Barn Close, had realized that he simply couldn't imagine the place without Selina, he was engaged to Val Proctor. A delightful (almost too good to be true) heroine and a unique hero.… (more)

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Karen74Leigh | Dec 6, 2022 |

To Catch a Unicorn by Sara Seale

Another on my quest to read the first 100 HPs. This one is numbered 97 and was written in 1964 originally. It wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad either. At least the hero and heroine actually had scenes together which is sometimes not the case with these old Harleys. One thing that I didn’t much care for is that the dialogue was rather like a witty play where no one really says what they mean. I don’t believe anyone ever really talked like that. The heroine was young but fairly strong. The hero was all in for her early.… (more)

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Luziadovalongo | Jul 14, 2022 |

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