Background
The son of Donald Alfred Sackett Marsh and Helen Cicely Perkins, he was born on 7 August 1914 and died aged 72 in Chatham, Kent, on 11 January 1987.
The son of Donald Alfred Sackett Marsh and Helen Cicely Perkins, he was born on 7 August 1914 and died aged 72 in Chatham, Kent, on 11 January 1987.
His most widely known novel, Irene (1949), was made into a 1950 film Once a Sinner starring:
Patricia Kirkwood - Irene JamesJack Watling - John RossJoy Shelton - Vera LambSydney Tafler - Jimmy SmartThora Hird - Mistress 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 fiancéest
The story ultimately ends in the tragedy so often associated with obsessive love.
Ronald Marsh"s other novels include:
The Quarry (1962), which was reviewed as being similar in style to Thomas Hardy in its depiction of a man"s endurance in the face of the onset of despair.