By the late seventies, she was an established and successful author, publishing as many as twelve novels a year with Mills and Boon. Her first historical and romantic novels were published by Robert Hale and serialised in Woman's Weekly Digest. In 1973 she signed Follow a Stranger as her most famous pseudonym: Charlotte Lamb, but later she used several other pseudonyms, among them Sheila Lancaster, Victoria Woolf and Laura Hardy. She began her writing career as her married name Sheila Holland and as her maiden name Sheila Coates. In between raising her five children, she wrote many more novels. She had been living on the island as a tax exile since 1977 with her husband and four of her five children.Ī voracious reader, she wrote her first book in three days with three children underfoot. She died suddenly on in her baronial-style home 'Crogga' on the Isle of Man. Her husband prompted her to begin writing in the early seventies. In 1959, she married Richard Holland, then a Fleet Street journalist, later a sub-editor of The Times and a classical biographer. She attended the Ursuline Convent for Girls, worked as a typist at the Bank of England and then as a junior researcher for the BBC at Broadcasting House. As a child, she was moved from relative to relative to escape the bombings of World War II. Born Sheila Ann Mary Coates in 1937 at Dagenham, Essex, England.
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