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Lord Hawkston, rik, självsäker och mäktig som han är, är van vid att få som han vill. Han kom som en virvelvind in i Dominicas liv, med ett oväntat förslag. Han är på jakt efter en hustru till sin unga släkting, och han tror att Dominica är den rätta kvinnan. Hon tackar till slut ja, för ett liv som ogift ungmö är inget som lockar henne, och om hennes blivande man är lika stilig och vänlig som Lord Hawkston resonerar hon att inget kan gå fel. Men när hennes nya liv ska börja är allt inte frid och fröjd, och Dominica ställs inför ett svårt val ...Cartlands böcker äger rum i de finare engelska kretsarna och i exotiska miljöer. Kärleken är häftig mellan de passionerade hjältarna och vackra hjältinnorna, men gång på gång går de igenom prövningar. Men äkta kärlek är alltid starkast och det finns ingenting den inte kan besegra.
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Barbara Cartland
1,074 books836 followersBorn in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com
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July 10, 2016
I enjoyed this quick read set in Ceylon. I'd never read a Barbara Cartland book before and judging by the number she wrote I'm guessing they can be formulaic.
July 19, 2023
Okay, this was different from her usual fare. This one is set in Cyelon, present day Sri Langka over the backdrop of tea plantations.
Also different, the Hero has had to work for a living. He is a plantation owner, and although he is wealthy now, he has had to work hard for it.
Unexpectedly, he inherits the title and estate of his uncle so has to return to England. He leaves a young nephew ro take care of the plantation so he can return to England. Its been 2 years and he desperately misses his plantation in Ceylon. He really did fall in love w the place when he was there.
He brings over the fiance of his nephew but she falls in love with someone else and so now he is in a conundrum. He finds a good, practical parson’s daughter to bring home as a wife to his nephew.
He takes her for a make over and she is quite pretty. He admires her for her composure and calm practical manner. Then takes her to the plantation. However when they arrive, the nephew has turned from a handsome, slim young man, into a fat, lazy drunkard. The heroine is horrified. However there is nothing she can do as she agreed to marry the nephew sight unseen.
They also find out that the nephew has cast away his local mistress and in her grief, she committed suicide. Now her father is out for revenge.
In the end, the vengeful father has his vindication, he kills the nephew but fails when he tries for the Hero. The Hero manages to shoot him, therefore eliminating the threat to the heroine.
They confess their love for each other, which has been growing ever since they met and promise to spend 6 months of the year in England, while spending the rest of the time in their beautiful plantation.
Also different, the Hero has had to work for a living. He is a plantation owner, and although he is wealthy now, he has had to work hard for it.
Unexpectedly, he inherits the title and estate of his uncle so has to return to England. He leaves a young nephew ro take care of the plantation so he can return to England. Its been 2 years and he desperately misses his plantation in Ceylon. He really did fall in love w the place when he was there.
He brings over the fiance of his nephew but she falls in love with someone else and so now he is in a conundrum. He finds a good, practical parson’s daughter to bring home as a wife to his nephew.
He takes her for a make over and she is quite pretty. He admires her for her composure and calm practical manner. Then takes her to the plantation. However when they arrive, the nephew has turned from a handsome, slim young man, into a fat, lazy drunkard. The heroine is horrified. However there is nothing she can do as she agreed to marry the nephew sight unseen.
They also find out that the nephew has cast away his local mistress and in her grief, she committed suicide. Now her father is out for revenge.
In the end, the vengeful father has his vindication, he kills the nephew but fails when he tries for the Hero. The Hero manages to shoot him, therefore eliminating the threat to the heroine.
They confess their love for each other, which has been growing ever since they met and promise to spend 6 months of the year in England, while spending the rest of the time in their beautiful plantation.
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April 10, 2022
This was my first book by Barbara Cartland and it was really good. Usually I have found these period piece novels to be either full of smut or boring, and I am happy to say this one was neither. I read it beginning to end in one sitting, and I found it to be quick-paced, with a cute plot, lovable characters, and just all around enjoyable. There could have been a little more going on for me which is why I gave 4 stars, but even with the simplicity of it, it was good.
October 11, 2022
Amazing, meticulous research and fascinating story!
April 20, 2023
Very quick read. A bog standard Barbara Cartland to be honest.
February 26, 2025
Ceylon born and bred, yet English through and though thanks to their stern father, who is the local Vicar, beautiful young Dominica Radford and her five sisters are excited when one Sunday a very handsome English gentleman comes calling on their father in their rundown Vicarage in Colombo.
But excitement turns to shock when Lord Hawkston out of the blue asks for Dominica’s hand in marriage for his twenty-four year old nephew Gerald Warren, who is running Lord Hawkston’s estate in Northern Ceylon.
Having discovered that Gerald, recently spurned by a previous fiancée, is drinking heavily, letting the Hawkston tea estate go to wrack and ruin and treating his native lover cruelly, Lord Hawkston is desperate to see him married and settled and so sees the intelligent and sensible Dominica as the perfect bride for him.
Overwhelmed by his Lordship’s generosity in giving her a glorious trousseau of pretty clothes, Dominica initially agrees, but soon she realises not only that she does not love Gerald she is repelled by him and the ugliness and coarseness he brings to the new Garden of Eden where she now finds herself.
Nevertheless the lovely Dominica is happier than she has ever been in her entire life.
And the reason suddenly comes to her in a blinding light.
She is in love with Lord Hawkston!
But excitement turns to shock when Lord Hawkston out of the blue asks for Dominica’s hand in marriage for his twenty-four year old nephew Gerald Warren, who is running Lord Hawkston’s estate in Northern Ceylon.
Having discovered that Gerald, recently spurned by a previous fiancée, is drinking heavily, letting the Hawkston tea estate go to wrack and ruin and treating his native lover cruelly, Lord Hawkston is desperate to see him married and settled and so sees the intelligent and sensible Dominica as the perfect bride for him.
Overwhelmed by his Lordship’s generosity in giving her a glorious trousseau of pretty clothes, Dominica initially agrees, but soon she realises not only that she does not love Gerald she is repelled by him and the ugliness and coarseness he brings to the new Garden of Eden where she now finds herself.
Nevertheless the lovely Dominica is happier than she has ever been in her entire life.
And the reason suddenly comes to her in a blinding light.
She is in love with Lord Hawkston!
June 12, 2023
Maybe should be a 2.5 but it started off good and then kind of petered out for me. Just lackluster. Enjoyed the information about Ceylon.
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