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Norma Handford nee Abbott-smith was born in Queensland on 2nd October 1903 and died in New South Wales on 4th Jan 1995, She Married Eric Handford in Kualar Lumpar and had one daughter, Barbara Ann Handford (later Legge).

Nourma edited the Australian Women's Digest for three years, wrote five novels for adults, High River (1947), Murder for Tea (1949), Coward's Kiss (1954), Blood on the Leaves (1953) and Fools of Time (1958), and several books for adolescent girls. She has also written, as Nourma Abbotsmith, White Girl, Brown Skin (1969) and as Norma Abbott-Smith, a biography of Ian Fair-weather (1978).