Mary Wibberley ( – 29 December 2013) was an

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writer. Born in

Worsley Worsley () is a village in the City of Salford, Greater Manchester, England, which in 2014 had a population of 10,090. It lies along Worsley Brook, west of Manchester. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county ...

, she wrote 48 novels for

Mills & Boon Mills & Boon is a romance imprint of British publisher Harlequin UK Ltd. It was founded in 1908 by Gerald Rusgrove Mills and Charles Boon as a general publisher. The company moved towards escapist fiction for women in the 1930s. In 1971, the ...

. Her first novel, ''Black Niall'', was published in 1973. Wibberley died following a short illness on 29 December 2013, aged 79. Her funeral took place on 30 December.

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