Far Sanctuary

by Jane Arbor

When Emma Redfern arrived at Tangier on a golden July afternoon, it should have been journey’s end which promised lovers’ meeting. Yet within as many days as she had been counting to her marriage, she was to find herself virtually alone there.

But not quite friendless. For in the brilliant pioneer of Maritime-Air she found a man to whom she could always turn with trust, and never in vain, even when the impersonal help he gave her conflicted with the more romantic rights claimed by the lovely Spanish widow, Leonore de Coria.

Tangier, the colourful gateway between East and West, though alien and menacing at first, at last was to be for Emma ‘the far place that was also home’, the background of a love which came upon her unawares.

187 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Eileen Norah Murphy Owbridge was born on 8 September 1903 in Yeovil, Somerset, England, she lived in Preston, Sussex, England, and passed away on 4 February 1994 in Worthing, West Sussex.

Under the pseudonym Jane Arbor she wrote over 55 romance novel for Mills & Boon from 1948 to 1985. She started writing doctor-nurse romances, and many have been reedited with diferent titles, that included the words "nurse", "doctor" or "surgeon". Later, she focused her writing in foreign settings like the continental Europe, the Caribbean, Morocco...

Reviews

[Henji · Rating 3 out of 5]

He showed her many times over that he cared for her through his actions, but she was really cold.

I expected a surge of passion on her side at least at the end, but nothing happenned.

When he asks her to marry him as fast as possible, her answer is "I don't want to be married in a hurry. I've got to get used to the idea". 🥶

This was well-written though.

[Len]