Her novels were different from other contemporary Western European romantic writers' works because she usually set them in the present and did not use eroticism, due to the Spanish regime's strict censorship.

[2] María del Socorro Tellado López was born in the small village of Viavélez, and she was the only girl of five siblings.

In 1948 she went back to Asturias with her mother, where she started publishing a different short novella every two weeks in Latin American magazine Vanidades.

In 1962 UNESCO declared her the most read Spanish writer after Miguel de Cervantes, and Editorial Bruguera offered her an exclusive contract to write.

She also published some children's books in collaboration with Jesús Zantón Santiago, and her favorite novel was Lucha oculta (1991), her first long work.