Touch a Star

by Barbara Cartland

A novel of love and revenge by the world's most famous romantic novelist. Lina , daughter of an earl, escapes from the prospect of marriage to a drunkard and finds herself in Paris, where she falls in love and nearly loses her life.

Genres: Romance

182 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1981

About the author

Born 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

Reviews

[Nadia · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one I do remember. Well, here we go again: another love in a moment but somehow hero knows this time it's real, even if he did that a lot before. But he sees Lina two times in a row and fall in love and knows this time it's not gonna be like all the other times. That's so strange for me. Mb it's just not my cup of tea. But i liked story nonetheless. Well, it would be fun if that old guy came looking for the heroine and hero would have to fight for her a little bit. :)

[Jane Irish Nelson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I used to read a lot of Barbara Cartland's books. Some of them are actually quite good. Unfortunately this was not one of those. But it is probably difficult to write a good book when you are writing over twenty a year! I found the basic plot situation highly unbelievable, and the heroine incredibly naive.

[Lina · Rating 4 out of 5]

A classic love story with the typical author choice of heroes and the era.