Sheila Frances Walsh (née O'Nions; 10 October 1928 – 20 January 2009) was a British writer of romance novels from 1975 to 2001; she also wrote as Sophie Leyton.
[1] She was born Sheila Frances O'Nions on 10 October 1928 in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom.
On 22 April 1950, Sheila married Desmond Walsh, and they had two daughters, Frances Mary and Teresa.
[2] Her debut novel, The Golden Songbird, won the Netta Muskett award for new writers from the Romantic Novelists' Association, and in 1984, her novel, A Highly Respectable Marriage, won the Elizabeth Goudge award.
[citation needed] Sheila Walsh died on 20 January 2009, at age 80, from undisclosed causes.