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الانسان يحب التملك غريزياً . وملكية الأرض لاتزال من أكبر وأهم احلام البشر . جولي عاشت في جزيرة سوليتير عشرة أعوام , فتعلقت بالتراب والشمس والخلجان , وإلى درجة انها اصيبت بكدمة عنيفة عندما وافق والدها على بيع أرضه أرضاء لزوجته جيزيلا, التى سئمت الحياة المعزولة ورغبت في الحياة المدن الصاخبه.
ووقفت جولي أمام الرمال المتساقطة من بين اصابعها لا تجد وسيلة لمنع صفقه البيع . هل تقتل سيمون ذلك الغريب الذي جاء فجأة لشراء جزيرة طفولتها والقضاء على أشجار ونباتات وذكرياتها ؟ عليها ان تدافع عن أحلامها يجب أن تمنع ذهاب الأرض من بين ذراعيها, ولكن جيزيلا تقف لها بالمرصاد وتخطط للخلاص من أسر الجزيره ...
جولي اليانسه اعتبرت عرض سيمون للزواج منها هو الحل الوحيد , رغم انه يكبرها سناً فهل تتزوج رجلاً لتحتفظ بأرضها ؟
ووقفت جولي أمام الرمال المتساقطة من بين اصابعها لا تجد وسيلة لمنع صفقه البيع . هل تقتل سيمون ذلك الغريب الذي جاء فجأة لشراء جزيرة طفولتها والقضاء على أشجار ونباتات وذكرياتها ؟ عليها ان تدافع عن أحلامها يجب أن تمنع ذهاب الأرض من بين ذراعيها, ولكن جيزيلا تقف لها بالمرصاد وتخطط للخلاص من أسر الجزيره ...
جولي اليانسه اعتبرت عرض سيمون للزواج منها هو الحل الوحيد , رغم انه يكبرها سناً فهل تتزوج رجلاً لتحتفظ بأرضها ؟
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First published December 1, 1965
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About the author
Andrea Blake
30 books8 followersJay Blakeney
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writinggene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of theworld. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never havebecome a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a backgroundand plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. Shecan write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist,writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with sevenbooks published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Herhusband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fictionincome -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the workof authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She alsowrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in avery small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, astreet, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of ruralSpain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing theNet, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. Atthe time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
aka Anne Weale, Andrea Blake
Jay Blakeney was born on Juny 20, 1929. Her great-grandfather was a well-known writer on moral theology, so perhaps she inherited her writinggene from him. She was "talking stories" to herself long before she could read. When she was still at school, she sold her first short stories to a woman's magazine and she feels she was destined to write. Decided to became a writer, she started writing for newspapers and magazines.
At 21, Jay was a newspaper reporter with a career plan, but the man she was wildly in love with announced that he was off to the other side of theworld. He thought they should either marry or say goodbye. She always believed that true love could last a lifetime, and she felt that wonderful men were much harder to find than good jobs, so she put her career on hold. What a wise decision it was! She felt that new young women seem less inclined to risk everything for love than her generation.
Together they traveled the world. If she hadn't spent part of her bridal year living on the edge of a jungle in Malaysia, she might never havebecome a romance writer. That isolated house, and the perils of the state of emergency that existed in the country at that time, gave her a backgroundand plot ideally suited to a genre she had never read until she came across some romances in the library of a country club they sometimes visited. Shecan write about love with the even stronger conviction that comes from experience.
When they returned to Europe, Jay resumed her career as a journalist,writing her first romance in her spare time. She sold her first novel as Anne Weale to Mills and Boon in 1955 at the age of 24. At 30, with sevenbooks published, she "retired" to have a baby and become a full-time writer. She raised a delightful son, David, who is as adventurous as his father. Herhusband and son have even climbed in the Andes and the Himalayas, giving her lots of ideas for stories. When she retired from reporting, her fictionincome -- a combination of amounts earned as a Mills & Boon author and writing for magazines such as Woman's Illustrated, which serialized the workof authors -- exceed 1,000 pounds a year.
She was a founding member of the The Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2002 she published her last novel, in total, she wrote 88 novels. She alsowrote under the pseudonym Andrea Blake. She loved setting her novels in exotic parts of the world, but specially in The Caribbean and in her beloved Spain. Since 1989, Jay spent most of the winter months in avery small "pueblo" in the backwoods of Spain. During years, she visited some villages, and from each she have borrowed some feature - a fountain, astreet, a plaza, a picturesque old house - to create some places like Valdecarrasca, that is wholly imaginary and yet typical of the part of ruralSpain she knew best. She loved walking, reading, sketching, sewing (curtains and slipcovers) and doing needlepoint, gardening, entertaining friends, visiting art galleries and museums, writing letters, surfing theNet, traveling in search of exciting locations for future books, eating delicious food and drinking good wine, cataloguing her books.
She wrote a regular website review column for The Bookseller from 1998 to 2004, before starting her own blog Bookworm on the Net. Atthe time of her death, on October 24, 2007, she was working on her autobiography "88 Heroes... 1 Mr. Right".
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February 3, 2016
I can't believe this book was written in 1965. Except for the smoking, it stands the test of time. I suppose this is one of Andrea Blake's first books, and later under her pen name Anne Weale she uses the same trope. A young beautiful girl who is raised in an isolated island, a bit of a Tom boy who likes to swim and sail. Hero comes to buy the island at first there is friction between them since she doesn't want her father to sell. Also a favorite scenario of Anne Weale; the Hero takes over the role of protector to the heroine through the death of her parent/ guardian. He marries her since she continues to need him any many issues need to be resolved before they get their HEA. If you read "Girl from the sea" and "Bed of roses" and "tequila Sunrise" it's practically the same scenario. I still like all of them though.
May 29, 2016
I was actually surprised how good this one. I wished the villain would of gotten hers but unfortunately that didn't happen. I also wished the hero showed a bit more passion and love towards the heroine. I did so enjoy the heroine though, she was young and fresh, completely what the novel needed.
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November 28, 2013an amazing book. It's my favorite one
May 3, 2014
Night of the hurricane is one great read.It is set in the 70's
Julie Temple,daughter of a famous painter lives in an island,solitaire,with her step mother Gisela and her father who travels a lot.Her stepmother is one greedy bitch.
Julie is an innocent and a loyal person.All her life she has lived in the island and her entire world revolves around it.The beach,the sea and the people who take care of their house and their kids.
So when a stranger,Simon,visits and tells her that he plans to buy this island from her father,she feels threatened and helpless.Even her Father listens to her stepmother.Her father and stepmother go on a trip to Newyork and leave Julie under the care of their housekeepers.
Simon saves Julie from a tornado that very night and offers to take her to his home.
Julie's opinion of Simon changes after she meets his family.And she even starts falling for him.But,tragedy strikes and Julie looses her Father.
Simon offers to marry Julie but he never says he loves her.He mentions all the qualities he likes in her and that she would make a good wife but never says anything about love.
Julie agrees to marry him and on her wedding night Gisela plants a seed of suspicion in Julie's mind about Simon's intentions to marry Julie.
Julie is crushed and tries to leave Simon but he advises her to stay with him for a few months.
Finally after a few ego clashes and a few fights(kisses as well),they figure their way out and have their "happily ever after" ending.
I loved this book.Its this slow building kind of romance.Things did not happen overnight.They were slow and steady.Sometimes too slow..
Simon could have showed his true affections from the very beginning instead of rattling Julie at every chance he got.
HE could have at least revealed that he loved her when he proposed her.
As Julie put it,"All the time we were engaged you were so ... so brotherly"..That's how he behaved actually!!
SO Simon also shares the blame.
The last few pages were very beautiful and I loved the ending.
The writing was great..
Julie Temple,daughter of a famous painter lives in an island,solitaire,with her step mother Gisela and her father who travels a lot.Her stepmother is one greedy bitch.
Julie is an innocent and a loyal person.All her life she has lived in the island and her entire world revolves around it.The beach,the sea and the people who take care of their house and their kids.
So when a stranger,Simon,visits and tells her that he plans to buy this island from her father,she feels threatened and helpless.Even her Father listens to her stepmother.Her father and stepmother go on a trip to Newyork and leave Julie under the care of their housekeepers.
Simon saves Julie from a tornado that very night and offers to take her to his home.
Julie's opinion of Simon changes after she meets his family.And she even starts falling for him.But,tragedy strikes and Julie looses her Father.
Simon offers to marry Julie but he never says he loves her.He mentions all the qualities he likes in her and that she would make a good wife but never says anything about love.
Julie agrees to marry him and on her wedding night Gisela plants a seed of suspicion in Julie's mind about Simon's intentions to marry Julie.
Julie is crushed and tries to leave Simon but he advises her to stay with him for a few months.
Finally after a few ego clashes and a few fights(kisses as well),they figure their way out and have their "happily ever after" ending.
I loved this book.Its this slow building kind of romance.Things did not happen overnight.They were slow and steady.Sometimes too slow..
Simon could have showed his true affections from the very beginning instead of rattling Julie at every chance he got.
HE could have at least revealed that he loved her when he proposed her.
As Julie put it,"All the time we were engaged you were so ... so brotherly"..That's how he behaved actually!!
SO Simon also shares the blame.
The last few pages were very beautiful and I loved the ending.
The writing was great..
August 6, 2018
Enjoyed the caribbean setting and the main characters.
April 27, 2023
Enemies to lovers, desert island, trapped during a hurricane... yes everything here I like. OK so skimmed the OW induced *~big misunderstanding~* about 20 pages from the end, but other than that smooth sailing my friends.
December 21, 2015
من اول الروايات الي قرأتهم وفتحوا لي ابواب عالم القراءة
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