Noreen "Norrey" Ford born on 28 March 1907 in Kingston upon Hull, England, UK. She studied at Hull's French Convent, Ravensworth School and Appleton-le-Moors. She married James Louis Christian Dilcock (1911–2000), a Midland judge and lay preacher at Walsall's St Paul's Church. The marriage spent much time travelling the world

Norren published romance novels from 1952 to 1977 under diferent pseudonyms: Norrey Ford, Jill Christian and Christian Walford. She was the second elected Chairman (1963-1965) of the Romantic Novelists' Association and also was a former vice-president of the organization. She passed away on 1985 in Walsall, and her ashes were scattered over the fells by the Lake District.