Ronald Marsh, sometimes cited as Ronald James Marsh (1914-1987), was a British author

Author

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 who was born in Broadstairs

Broadstairs

Broadstairs is a coastal town on the Isle of Thanet in the Thanet district of east Kent, England, about south-east of London. It is part of the civil parish of Broadstairs and St Peter's, which includes St. Peter's and had a population in 2001 of about 24,000. Situated between Margate and...

 in Kent and spent much of his life in Rochester, where he was City Librarian.

His most widely known novel, Irene (1949), was made into a 1950 film Once a Sinner starring:

Patricia Kirkwood

Patricia Kirkwood

Patricia Kirkwood was a British stage actress who appeared in numerous performances of dramas, cabaret, revues, music hall, variety, and pantomimes. She also performed on radio, television, and movies...

 - Irene James

Jack Watling

Jack Watling

Jack Watling was a British actor.-Early life:Watling trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts as a child and made his stage debut in Where the Rainbow Ends at the Holborn Empire in 1936...

 - John Ross

Joy Shelton

Joy Shelton

Joy Shelton was an English actress, who performed in films, radio and television.-Biography:Joy Shelton was born in London on 3 June 1922...

 - Vera Lamb

Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler , was a British film and television actor, first appearing in London's West End in 1936, after two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with Sir Seymour Hicks in The Man in Dress Clothes....

 - Jimmy Smart

Thora Hird

Thora Hird

Dame Thora Hird DBE was an English actress.-Early life and career:Hird was born in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. She first appeared on stage at the age of two months in a play her father was managing...

 - Mrs. James

The story is that of John Ross, a bank clerk, who is in love with Irene James for whom he will do anything, including stooping to crime. Irene cannot give up her criminal former boyfriend, Jimmy Smart, while John realises, too late, that he should have remained with his former fiancée. The story ultimately ends in the tragedy so often associated with obsessive love.
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Ronald Marsh's other novels include:

• Your Brother Still (1953), which concerns arson in a dockyard (an offence still punishable by death at that time); and
• The Quarry (1962), which was reviewed as being similar in style to Thomas Hardy
  Thomas Hardy
  Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. While his works typically belong to the Naturalism movement, several poems display elements of the previous Romantic and Enlightenment periods of literature, such as his fascination with the supernatural.While he regarded himself primarily as a...
  
  in its depiction of a man's endurance in the face of the onset of despair.