But I do not object to having a copy of my shelf as I would like to complete the set of works. I found it so hard hitting and I was so moved by it I felt I could not read it again.

It was a harrowing tale about settlers and how they survived. Back in the early 1970's I read a book called The Road to Revelation. I have nearly all of her books but one eludes me. What could replace those marvellous words, how could they be transferred from the prose of Lofts to celloloid. I have never seen the film (starring Margaret Lockwood) and I am not sure I would want to. And yet I find nobody else amongst my many friends and aquaintances has ever read Lofts.

For a time they used to turn up in second hand shops in towns in England but no longer. I have a very battered paperback copy - I, like Dilys Helmar, would almost be prepared to sell my soul for a hard back copy! Like Beatrice in a previous note, I began reading Norah Lofts in my early teens in the 1950's. Dealing with powerful love, lesbianism, nymphomania and lunacy it is the most amazing book. What a controversial book it must have been then. This book was written in the early 1940's. However, I choose 'Jassy', a remarkable book also about jealousy, evil and goodness. If it wasn't for Norah Lofts I would take Steinbecks East of Eden. They are already, in theory, given the complete works of Shakespeare and the Bible. At the end of the programme the interviewer asks the guest which book they would most like to take with them. In England we have a radio programme called Desert Island Disks. It is hard to put her books down to go to sleep at night. I am now trying to buy her complete library and have most so far. I began reading her books in the late fifties when I was about 14 or 15. To think a great mind like her walked this Earth and I did not meet her - what a blessing she must have been to her husband and to her friends! I hope I meet her in the Great Beyond and we can become friends! Edmonds and I will walk everywhere she walked.

She is so timely and what a wit! She is so insightful and I feel better as a woman after I read her, she is such an advocate for BRAINY women! No mercy though, I like that! I will visit Bury St.

I discovered Norah Lofts book in a garbage bin at the Inuvik Regional Hospital and I got hooked. Does anyone know or can help? thanks much I didn't really understand what the theme was in her book The Fall of Midas, written as Juliet Astley. I think Norah Lofts is, without a doubt, the very best novelist I have ever read.

How Far to Bethlehem? by Norah Lofts