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جرح الغزالة
المرارة واليأس غلفا حياة غايل بعد تعرضها لحادث سيارة ادى الى اصابتها بجروح بارزه وعقم دائم، مما جعل خطيبها يفسخ الخطوبة، ويقلل من فرصتها في الزواج والاستقرار وانشاء عائلة.
وتلتقي غايل باللورد الاسكتلندي الأرمل اندرو، الحاقد على النساء، نتجية خيانة زوجته... اندرو يبحث عن مربية لطفليه الصغيرين و ابنته المراهقة، فتغتنم غايل هذه الفرصة، لكنه يفاجئها بطلبه عقد زواج اداري.
ويأتي قبولها اشباعاً لغريزة الأمومة لديها، لا انجذاباً نحوه.
لكن اندرو يجعل مهمتها صعبة، فحضوره قوي و شراسته لا تطاق، وغايل الغزالة الباكية تدور في القصر فقط لتلبية رغباته، عزاؤها كان حب الصغيرين لها، لكنها جنت ووقعت في هوى صيادها، فهل يطلق عليها طلقة الرحمة ويحبها؟
وتلتقي غايل باللورد الاسكتلندي الأرمل اندرو، الحاقد على النساء، نتجية خيانة زوجته... اندرو يبحث عن مربية لطفليه الصغيرين و ابنته المراهقة، فتغتنم غايل هذه الفرصة، لكنه يفاجئها بطلبه عقد زواج اداري.
ويأتي قبولها اشباعاً لغريزة الأمومة لديها، لا انجذاباً نحوه.
لكن اندرو يجعل مهمتها صعبة، فحضوره قوي و شراسته لا تطاق، وغايل الغزالة الباكية تدور في القصر فقط لتلبية رغباته، عزاؤها كان حب الصغيرين لها، لكنها جنت ووقعت في هوى صيادها، فهل يطلق عليها طلقة الرحمة ويحبها؟
159 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1971
About the author
Anne Hampson
150 books155 followersAnne Hampson was born on 28 November 1928 in England. At age six she had two ambitions: to teach and to write. Poverty after WWI deprived her of an education and at 14 she was making Marks & Spencer's blouses at one shilling (5p) each.
She retired when she married. Later, when her marriage broke up, she was homeless with £40 in her purse. She went back to the rag trade and lived in a tiny caravan. But she never forgot her two ambitions, and when Manchester University decided to trial older women she applied, and three years later had achieved one ambition, so set her thoughts on number two.
In 1969, her first novel, Eternal Summer, was accepted five days from posting and she soon had a contract for 12 more. From the caravan she went to a small stately home, drove a Mercedes and sailed on the QE2. From the first book, came over 125 more written for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette. Alan Boon (the Boon of Mills & Boon) and she came up with the title for 'Harlequin Presents' over lunch at the Ritz. She suggested to Alan that they have a historical series. He told her to write one - it was done in a month, entitled Eleanor and the Marquis under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. She has the distinction of being number one in Harlequin Presents, Masquerade and Silhouette. Many of "Presents" have been reprinted many times (some as many as 16) and are now fetching up to $55, being classed as "rare" books.
She has had 3 awards, one at the World Trade Centre where she received a standing ovation from her American fans, who had come from many states just to meet her.
She was retired, but in 2005 she wrote two romance and crime novels, both of which were published by Severn House.
She passed away on 25 September 2014. She has been written her autobiography, entitled Fate Was My Friend.
She retired when she married. Later, when her marriage broke up, she was homeless with £40 in her purse. She went back to the rag trade and lived in a tiny caravan. But she never forgot her two ambitions, and when Manchester University decided to trial older women she applied, and three years later had achieved one ambition, so set her thoughts on number two.
In 1969, her first novel, Eternal Summer, was accepted five days from posting and she soon had a contract for 12 more. From the caravan she went to a small stately home, drove a Mercedes and sailed on the QE2. From the first book, came over 125 more written for Mills & Boon, Harlequin and Silhouette. Alan Boon (the Boon of Mills & Boon) and she came up with the title for 'Harlequin Presents' over lunch at the Ritz. She suggested to Alan that they have a historical series. He told her to write one - it was done in a month, entitled Eleanor and the Marquis under the pseudonym Jane Wilby. She has the distinction of being number one in Harlequin Presents, Masquerade and Silhouette. Many of "Presents" have been reprinted many times (some as many as 16) and are now fetching up to $55, being classed as "rare" books.
She has had 3 awards, one at the World Trade Centre where she received a standing ovation from her American fans, who had come from many states just to meet her.
She was retired, but in 2005 she wrote two romance and crime novels, both of which were published by Severn House.
She passed away on 25 September 2014. She has been written her autobiography, entitled Fate Was My Friend.
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October 21, 2011
Jerky heroes are almost a given in Harlequin Presents, but this one really took the cake. He treats his wife worse than a servant, literally telling her to "know her place." And she is an utter doormat and puts up with everything. Awful book.
June 12, 2017
This is a reread for me. I read this the first time as a teenager in the 70s. I remembered almost everything as I went along.
The hero wasn't so great but I felt his actions were consistent with how the author had built his character. The heroine was a mature woman dealing with a sucky hand life had dealt her. The hero's oldest daughter, Morag, was a true sociopath. Most of the book was dealing with her really. There was more face to face conversation between the heroine and Morag than between the heroine and the hero. That is where the book fell short. The heroine and Morag = show. The heroine and the hero = tell.
Fun reread for me though.
The hero wasn't so great but I felt his actions were consistent with how the author had built his character. The heroine was a mature woman dealing with a sucky hand life had dealt her. The hero's oldest daughter, Morag, was a true sociopath. Most of the book was dealing with her really. There was more face to face conversation between the heroine and Morag than between the heroine and the hero. That is where the book fell short. The heroine and Morag = show. The heroine and the hero = tell.
Fun reread for me though.
April 24, 2018
This contains some really messed-up elements. Interestingly, some of them are almost throwaways in terms of the amount of time the book spends on them.
I gave this two stars because the h got what she wanted in the end, the H seemed to legitimately love her, and also because of the Hampson-style expediency in resolving the barriers to happiness. (Suffice to say, Hampson does not suffer from excessive sensitivity.) Unfortunately, the ex-fiance is not hit with a falling piano.
I gave this two stars because the h got what she wanted in the end, the H seemed to legitimately love her, and also because of the Hampson-style expediency in resolving the barriers to happiness. (Suffice to say, Hampson does not suffer from excessive sensitivity.) Unfortunately, the ex-fiance is not hit with a falling piano.
September 5, 2013
I found this book to be fascinating. It starts out as an infertility story, but quickly moves on to become an absorbing story of the h's adjustment to marriage and motherhood with her new family -- including dealing with the teenage stepdaughter from hell. It riveted my attention to the last page.
July 27, 2021
Weirdest book I have ever read. The H is an idiot who was cheated on by his late wife whom he repeatedly accepted and had more kids. He distrusts the entire race after that experience and controls h who marries him as her ex-fiancé gets into a drunken accident that injures her while he walks away without any issues. The accident leaves her with scars and inability to bear kids so obv the fiancé dumps her. The H and h marry so that h can experience ‘motherhood’ and H gets a free lifelong nanny. He controls whom she speaks with or looks at! To top it the oldest kid isn’t even his kid and she smokes her way to death.
September 22, 2024
2 ½ Stars ~ I knew before starting this romance, published in 1971, that typically Ms Hampson's hero was bound to be an arrogant brute with few redeemable qualities, at least in today's standards. In that regard, I wasn't disappointed. And I really wasn't surprised that I was immediately drawn in and compelled to read on. That is just how talented this author was.
This is the story of Gail, a 28 year old woman who suffered greatly 9 years before from a car accident. Her injuries were severe, multiple surgeries required, leaving both physical scars and emotional ones. The most horrific result was the rejection from her fiancé upon learning she could no longer bear children. The accident had been Michael's fault, yet still he refused to stand by her.
The book opens with Gail lunching on a bench in the park; enjoying the swans gliding on the lake. A couple with children arrive, and she's shocked to see that it's Michael, his wife and two children. Seeing them brings her personal pains forefront, and she vows to herself to leave her office job and seek a job as a nanny. She knows she'll never marry, so this is her best future, where she can love and be part of children's lives.
Andrew is a Scottish laird who takes a hands-on responsibility of his vast country estates (think of the TV series, Monarch of the Glen). He's a widower with two young children (Robbie 7, Shena 5) and a hellion daughter of 15, Morag. His history with his wife is a bitter one, and now he faces the same difficulties with his eldest daughter. In London to interview nannies, Andrew leaves Robbie and Shena with Gail's sister and brother-in-law. When Gail takes her bi-annual holiday break to visit, she quickly bonds with his children.
Unsuccessful in finding the right nanny, Andrew is pleased to see how Gail and his children get on. Seeking Gail out alone, he admits to her that he'd actually hoped to find a good woman to marry. A marriage in name only, but would give her the much needed role of mother. When he asks Gail to fill that role, she sees her once dream of being a wife and mother coming true, and accepts.
Gail falls instantly in love with her new home and the vast beautiful countryside. While Robbie quickly accepts her as mummy, Shena needs more gentle nurturing. All the rumours, Gail has heard of 15 year old Morag, seem to be based on truth. The girl is incorrigible, and short of locking her in her room, she comes and goes at her pleasure. Morag has no empathy for others and could easily be deemed a sociopath. The girl causes nothing but trouble for Gail, constantly undermining her and feeding her father with lies.
This is where I'll stop with the plot description. Gail on the whole is likeable, but not very assertive unless she loses her temper. Andrew overall comes across as cold, but knowing his past with his wife it is easy to see this is a wall he builds to protect himself. He's a jealous man and takes his role as laird very seriously, demanding respect always. With Robbie and Shena, he is a caring father, and together with Gail it seems he's lonely for a loving family life. Morag, the she-devil constantly puts him into black moods, sometimes brutal black moods.
As in all Harlequin's there is a HEA for Gail and Andrew. While at times it seemed impossible to achieve, Ms Hampson wrote the only ending that would work. I would have liked a longer ending, more groveling and proving redemption on Andrew's part. Alas, this is not Ms Hampson's style.
This is the story of Gail, a 28 year old woman who suffered greatly 9 years before from a car accident. Her injuries were severe, multiple surgeries required, leaving both physical scars and emotional ones. The most horrific result was the rejection from her fiancé upon learning she could no longer bear children. The accident had been Michael's fault, yet still he refused to stand by her.
The book opens with Gail lunching on a bench in the park; enjoying the swans gliding on the lake. A couple with children arrive, and she's shocked to see that it's Michael, his wife and two children. Seeing them brings her personal pains forefront, and she vows to herself to leave her office job and seek a job as a nanny. She knows she'll never marry, so this is her best future, where she can love and be part of children's lives.
Andrew is a Scottish laird who takes a hands-on responsibility of his vast country estates (think of the TV series, Monarch of the Glen). He's a widower with two young children (Robbie 7, Shena 5) and a hellion daughter of 15, Morag. His history with his wife is a bitter one, and now he faces the same difficulties with his eldest daughter. In London to interview nannies, Andrew leaves Robbie and Shena with Gail's sister and brother-in-law. When Gail takes her bi-annual holiday break to visit, she quickly bonds with his children.
Unsuccessful in finding the right nanny, Andrew is pleased to see how Gail and his children get on. Seeking Gail out alone, he admits to her that he'd actually hoped to find a good woman to marry. A marriage in name only, but would give her the much needed role of mother. When he asks Gail to fill that role, she sees her once dream of being a wife and mother coming true, and accepts.
Gail falls instantly in love with her new home and the vast beautiful countryside. While Robbie quickly accepts her as mummy, Shena needs more gentle nurturing. All the rumours, Gail has heard of 15 year old Morag, seem to be based on truth. The girl is incorrigible, and short of locking her in her room, she comes and goes at her pleasure. Morag has no empathy for others and could easily be deemed a sociopath. The girl causes nothing but trouble for Gail, constantly undermining her and feeding her father with lies.
This is where I'll stop with the plot description. Gail on the whole is likeable, but not very assertive unless she loses her temper. Andrew overall comes across as cold, but knowing his past with his wife it is easy to see this is a wall he builds to protect himself. He's a jealous man and takes his role as laird very seriously, demanding respect always. With Robbie and Shena, he is a caring father, and together with Gail it seems he's lonely for a loving family life. Morag, the she-devil constantly puts him into black moods, sometimes brutal black moods.
As in all Harlequin's there is a HEA for Gail and Andrew. While at times it seemed impossible to achieve, Ms Hampson wrote the only ending that would work. I would have liked a longer ending, more groveling and proving redemption on Andrew's part. Alas, this is not Ms Hampson's style.
August 1, 2026
I don't even know where to start with this one.
Okay, first of all, it was compelling to read. The writing itself, aside from all the issues with the godawful people in this book, kept me hooked till the end. So that's a plus.
Another plus was that the ending did actually have a decent sort of heart-to-heart talk/debriefing between the H and h, which resolved everything except his horrifically abusive and controlling behavior toward the h satisfactorily rather than ending abruptly at a declaration of love with lots of loose ends dangling around.
The main problem(s): The H's sociopathic nasty 15 yo daughter: She's out to cause as much chaos and destruction as possible, even if it kills her! (that is foreshadowing watch out)
The H's nasty mother-in-law who has a hate-love relationship with her own grandchildren.
The H's late wife who was a cheaty-McCheaterson and cheated him their entire marriage and did contribute to his misogynistic ideas toward women but I'm not fully laying the blame at her feet.
And last but NOT least: The H himself.
The H is a classic misogynistic abuser who truly believes women are lesser beings than ... him, at least, and probably all men. That aside, he has decided that his kids do need a mother and not another nanny, so he proposes a MOC for the h, a late-20s "spinster" who was previously rendered infertile after her former fiancee drove while drunk and wrecked them, leaving her with a bunch of scars, and then dumping her because he wanted children and she could no longer bear any, due to HIS bad decisions... anyway. So the h agrees, thinking she will have a position of respect and equality at least with the H, if not love. HA!!!! Nope not with this dude.
Here are some of his most charming examples of the way he shows the h that she is not a real human with her own feelings, needs, and rights but is in fact an extension of himself and nothing more:
* The day of their wedding on their trip to his estate, he almost entirely avoids speaking to her. He's not angry or anything. He just doesn't bother to make conversation with his new wife until his children sort of force it toward the end. Then he casually introduces her to his staff as "meet my wife" with zero other explanation. Because she's just a female mother appliance he bought for his kids so why would he?
* Later, when the H and his horrific sociopathic daughter get into an argument and the h realizes the H has struck his daughter in the face, she comes into the room and offers help to try to diffuse the situation; the H orders her (the h!) out of the room, then comes up, bursts into her bedroom, and while she's in the midst of apologizing for having the temerity to idk, keep her husband from violently attacking his daughter, he orders her to NEVER offer her help or advice and to "know her place." Quote from the book. Yes, his WIFE should know her place which is that of a servant in his house. He's quite clear about this.
* They go to attend a formal party that for some reason tends to feature women wearing sleeveless gowns. I have no idea why in the NORTH of Scotland that even in the dead of summer it would be required to wear sleeveless gowns at any party, but whatever. The h demurs, because she has scars from the accident. The H doesn't know this (because they've never been around each other less than fully clothed of course), but refuses to listen to any of her reasons for wanting to have short sleeves. She goes behind his back and shows up to the party wearing a perfectly appropriate dress with the exception of sleeves, and he absolutely loses it on her, accusing her of trying to disrespect him in front of the whole town, etc. insisting that everyone was staring at her because of her HORRIBLE fashion sense of not being sleeveless (is this like a theme of the party? Like why?!) and threatens the h with being "hurt so you'll remember it for a long while" if she "flaunts his authority" like that again.
* There's this whole thing with this other dude Robin who shows up. The h doesn't like him and barely interacts with him, but the first time he comes over to ask if he can fish from the loch, wherein the h refers him to the steward and the kids insist on walking with the dude to the loch, the H violently shakes her and forbids her from ever talking to him again. Later he finds out she's talked to him again (she invited him in to visit the sociopath daughter who is causing her own issues) and again shakes the living daylights out of her and threatens her again.
* at one point the childrens' maternal (evil) grandmother shows up and demands that they visit her. They both have colds, and it's snowing outside and the h doesn't want to allow them to go but the grandmother insists, and the h doesn't know if she has the authority to insist that they stay home, because she's been beaten down by the H so much already. First, he agrees that the grandma has absolute authority over their mere stepmother-bot, then after the girl gets sick with flu, blames the h entirely for the whole thing. For a full week. Fun times.
Other things: H is not allowed to talk about the H to anyone outside their home or behind his back.
H is also not allowed to talk about the H to anyone inside their home or in front of him, because it makes him feel bad.
Like he's just entirely abusive.
Anyway, after a lot of bad things happen to a bunch of people, not excluding sociopath-daughter (she ends up being the scapegoat for a lot of things that the H should have taken responsibility for though), the H and h decide to try and make a go of a real marriage and declare their affection for each other.
Sorry, it does say love, but I insist it's just affection.
Again despite the many many things pointing to this just being an abusive, cancerous, toxic relationship, it was surprisingly compelling reading. You just really have to set aside a bunch of stuff as being the product of the author's mixed-up and disturbed brain.
Okay, first of all, it was compelling to read. The writing itself, aside from all the issues with the godawful people in this book, kept me hooked till the end. So that's a plus.
Another plus was that the ending did actually have a decent sort of heart-to-heart talk/debriefing between the H and h, which resolved everything except his horrifically abusive and controlling behavior toward the h satisfactorily rather than ending abruptly at a declaration of love with lots of loose ends dangling around.
The main problem(s): The H's sociopathic nasty 15 yo daughter: She's out to cause as much chaos and destruction as possible, even if it kills her! (that is foreshadowing watch out)
The H's nasty mother-in-law who has a hate-love relationship with her own grandchildren.
The H's late wife who was a cheaty-McCheaterson and cheated him their entire marriage and did contribute to his misogynistic ideas toward women but I'm not fully laying the blame at her feet.
And last but NOT least: The H himself.
The H is a classic misogynistic abuser who truly believes women are lesser beings than ... him, at least, and probably all men. That aside, he has decided that his kids do need a mother and not another nanny, so he proposes a MOC for the h, a late-20s "spinster" who was previously rendered infertile after her former fiancee drove while drunk and wrecked them, leaving her with a bunch of scars, and then dumping her because he wanted children and she could no longer bear any, due to HIS bad decisions... anyway. So the h agrees, thinking she will have a position of respect and equality at least with the H, if not love. HA!!!! Nope not with this dude.
Here are some of his most charming examples of the way he shows the h that she is not a real human with her own feelings, needs, and rights but is in fact an extension of himself and nothing more:
* The day of their wedding on their trip to his estate, he almost entirely avoids speaking to her. He's not angry or anything. He just doesn't bother to make conversation with his new wife until his children sort of force it toward the end. Then he casually introduces her to his staff as "meet my wife" with zero other explanation. Because she's just a female mother appliance he bought for his kids so why would he?
* Later, when the H and his horrific sociopathic daughter get into an argument and the h realizes the H has struck his daughter in the face, she comes into the room and offers help to try to diffuse the situation; the H orders her (the h!) out of the room, then comes up, bursts into her bedroom, and while she's in the midst of apologizing for having the temerity to idk, keep her husband from violently attacking his daughter, he orders her to NEVER offer her help or advice and to "know her place." Quote from the book. Yes, his WIFE should know her place which is that of a servant in his house. He's quite clear about this.
* They go to attend a formal party that for some reason tends to feature women wearing sleeveless gowns. I have no idea why in the NORTH of Scotland that even in the dead of summer it would be required to wear sleeveless gowns at any party, but whatever. The h demurs, because she has scars from the accident. The H doesn't know this (because they've never been around each other less than fully clothed of course), but refuses to listen to any of her reasons for wanting to have short sleeves. She goes behind his back and shows up to the party wearing a perfectly appropriate dress with the exception of sleeves, and he absolutely loses it on her, accusing her of trying to disrespect him in front of the whole town, etc. insisting that everyone was staring at her because of her HORRIBLE fashion sense of not being sleeveless (is this like a theme of the party? Like why?!) and threatens the h with being "hurt so you'll remember it for a long while" if she "flaunts his authority" like that again.
* There's this whole thing with this other dude Robin who shows up. The h doesn't like him and barely interacts with him, but the first time he comes over to ask if he can fish from the loch, wherein the h refers him to the steward and the kids insist on walking with the dude to the loch, the H violently shakes her and forbids her from ever talking to him again. Later he finds out she's talked to him again (she invited him in to visit the sociopath daughter who is causing her own issues) and again shakes the living daylights out of her and threatens her again.
* at one point the childrens' maternal (evil) grandmother shows up and demands that they visit her. They both have colds, and it's snowing outside and the h doesn't want to allow them to go but the grandmother insists, and the h doesn't know if she has the authority to insist that they stay home, because she's been beaten down by the H so much already. First, he agrees that the grandma has absolute authority over their mere stepmother-bot, then after the girl gets sick with flu, blames the h entirely for the whole thing. For a full week. Fun times.
Other things: H is not allowed to talk about the H to anyone outside their home or behind his back.
H is also not allowed to talk about the H to anyone inside their home or in front of him, because it makes him feel bad.
Like he's just entirely abusive.
Anyway, after a lot of bad things happen to a bunch of people, not excluding sociopath-daughter (she ends up being the scapegoat for a lot of things that the H should have taken responsibility for though), the H and h decide to try and make a go of a real marriage and declare their affection for each other.
Sorry, it does say love, but I insist it's just affection.
Again despite the many many things pointing to this just being an abusive, cancerous, toxic relationship, it was surprisingly compelling reading. You just really have to set aside a bunch of stuff as being the product of the author's mixed-up and disturbed brain.
March 4, 2024
Meh for me. He is just too cruel and the daughter is a sociopath. I can somewhat empathize with him having married a serial cheater who leaves her psychopath daughter, who is not his, to raise, but overall a real dick of a dude.
July 15, 2015
Well I read this story in Arabic and I was crazy about it . I t was called جرح الغزالة . Yet reading it again I felt its in some how boring but it was ok reread .
October 11, 2018
Liked it.
November 6, 2017
مترجمة للغة العربية باسم جرح الغزالة.
no-fcking-ways
September 21, 2024H with no respect for h.
April 8, 2026
średnio romansowy ten romans
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