[2] While her first published book was a biography of the Antarctic explorer Captain Lawrence Oates co-authored with Patrick Cordingley, later works have been predominantly novels – many of them for young adults – and comedies for radio and television, often with a literary or historical setting.
[3][4] Limb's debut novel Up the Garden Path was adapted as a BBC Radio 4 sitcom,[5][6] and subsequently broadcast on television on ITV.
[7][8] For Radio 4, she has written a number of comedy series (which pay unusual attention to music and sound effects): The Wordsmiths at Gorsemere (a pastiche of the poet William Wordsworth and his circle at Grasmere, two series), The Sit Crom (set in the English Civil War), Four Joneses and a Jenkins (a reference to Four Weddings and a Funeral); Alison and Maud; and most recently Gloomsbury, "a rhapsody about bohemians", about members of the Bloomsbury Group and starring Miriam Margolyes and Alison Steadman.
In 1989, as Dulcie Domum, she coined the term "bonkbuster", which is a play on "blockbuster" and the verb "to bonk", which is British slang for "to have sexual intercourse".
In 2002 the Oxford English Dictionary recognized this portmanteau, defining it as "a type of popular novel characterized by frequent explicit sexual encounters between the characters.