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Cathy nunca tinha visto aquele homem; mesmo assim, o odiava. Tinha que odiar: foi ele o culpado pela morte de seu querido pai. E agora ia arrancá-la da sua casa, porque o vale seria inundado pela represa que ele, "o chefe", estava construindo. Um dia Cathy se vingaria daquele monstro. Por enquanto, porém, precisava se conformar e ir viver com "tio" Charles, a única pessoa no mundo que amparou a pobre órfã! Charles: que homem bondoso… e atraente! Que delícia estar em sua companhia, e que saudade quando ele ficava muito tempo longe! Mas, apesar de toda a gratidão e atração que sentia por Charles, havia uma coisa que Cathy não sabia…
Cathy nunca tinha visto aquele homem; mesmo assim, o odiava. Tinha que odiar: foi ele o culpado pela morte de seu querido pai. E agora ia arrancá-la da sua casa, porque o vale seria inundado pela represa que ele, "o chefe", estava construindo. Um dia Cathy se vingaria daquele monstro. Por enquanto, porém, precisava se conformar e ir viver com "tio" Charles, a única pessoa no mundo que amparou a pobre órfã! Charles: que homem bondoso… e atraente! Que delícia estar em sua companhia, e que saudade quando ele ficava muito tempo longe! Mas, apesar de toda a gratidão e atração que sentia por Charles, havia uma coisa que Cathy não sabia…
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Anne Hampson
168 books152 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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August 20, 2020
"Precious Waif" is the story of Cathy and Charles.
Oh my god. If you want to feel the human emotion of being "Exasperated", this is the book for you.
Our heroine is a precious *cough* stupid waif. Until now, she lived as a wild child with her conversationalist father, only interested in geography, cartography and geology. That is, until her father tragically dies, leaving her 19 year old naive soul all alone in this evil world. Her biggest threat is this mystery man, who wants to uproot their precious land and construct a reservoir. The heroine blames him for her father's death and has intense hatred for this unknown figure.
Suddenly, her neighbor explains that she has a distant uncle (remember she has NEVER heard of him until this point), and to everyone (and nobody's) surprise- the heroine believes her.
Then this strange man shows up, and whisks her away to his home where she lives with his disapproving "family" and hired help. She is constantly chided and verbally reprimanded for her boldness and free attitude, and at the same time she starts giving vital information about her land to this uncle. The weirdest pseudo-incestuous part is this subtle romance between them.
Yeah, the hero takes up a stranger/"relative" in and behaves in a proper manner, but his intentions are not so noble. He was plain mean and hurtful in most of the interactions. The heroine, on the other hand, was quite stubborn yet equally one of the biggest idiots I have ever come across in the HQN-topia. The saving grace is the last 20% of the book, where things are given time to work out and characters mature and we get heartfelt confessions and apology.
Most of it was frustration, ending was noice.
Safe
2.5/5
Oh my god. If you want to feel the human emotion of being "Exasperated", this is the book for you.
Our heroine is a precious *cough* stupid waif. Until now, she lived as a wild child with her conversationalist father, only interested in geography, cartography and geology. That is, until her father tragically dies, leaving her 19 year old naive soul all alone in this evil world. Her biggest threat is this mystery man, who wants to uproot their precious land and construct a reservoir. The heroine blames him for her father's death and has intense hatred for this unknown figure.
Suddenly, her neighbor explains that she has a distant uncle (remember she has NEVER heard of him until this point), and to everyone (and nobody's) surprise- the heroine believes her.
Then this strange man shows up, and whisks her away to his home where she lives with his disapproving "family" and hired help. She is constantly chided and verbally reprimanded for her boldness and free attitude, and at the same time she starts giving vital information about her land to this uncle. The weirdest pseudo-incestuous part is this subtle romance between them.
Yeah, the hero takes up a stranger/"relative" in and behaves in a proper manner, but his intentions are not so noble. He was plain mean and hurtful in most of the interactions. The heroine, on the other hand, was quite stubborn yet equally one of the biggest idiots I have ever come across in the HQN-topia. The saving grace is the last 20% of the book, where things are given time to work out and characters mature and we get heartfelt confessions and apology.
Most of it was frustration, ending was noice.
Safe
2.5/5
October 7, 2018
Cathy has just lost her father, her only relative. She is 19 years old and, since she has been raised on the moors, in an unconventional manner by her father, she is quite sheltered and seems younger than her years. Cathy is grieving. She blames the death of her father on the head of the construction company responsible for building the damn and evicting them from their home.
Since she is alone, a neighbor suggests getting in touch with a distant relative to take her under his roof.
Charles is an uncle by marriage, so he comes to take Cathy to his home to live with his step-mom and her daughter in his house. Charles is only home during the weekends due to his work. Cathy is grateful to Charles for taking her in, though they clash a lot since Cathy is still very childish and unconventional due to her upbringing. Nevertheless Cathy and Charles start caring for each other and a good uncle-niece relationship develops. Cathy makes friends with the neighbors, who have a daughter her age. They become responsible for influencing Cathy's more mature and conventional behavior. She was always getting into scrapes, which Charles had to rescue her from.
All this time Cathy expresses her resentment towards the man responsible for building the dam. She blames him for causing her father's death. Even if Charles tries to reason with her she doesn't see it. (There is some mystery about what exactly Charles' work is) As Cathy matures, she starts going out to dances with a local boy, Bill. At one event, she dances with Charles and she feels something different, more than just affection for an uncle.
During a hiking trip to the moors with Bill, they are caught by the mist and both fall down. Cathy is not hurt too badly but has to convalesce in a house on the moors. Although Charles is with her she thinks she is in the house of the man building the dam and gets upset. One day she decides to explore the house and she enters Charles' study. She sees her father's maps. Maps she has shown only to Charles, and she realises that he is the man building the dam. She is hurt and angry and lashes out at him since she thinks he only took care of her to get his hands on the maps. He tries to plead with her and point out that her hatred is misplaced, but Cathy is adamant. She leaves him and gets a job in another town. After several months, she misses him and realizes that she has been acting selfishly and immaturely but she is unsure of how he will react if she comes back. Then, she hears that the step sister is engaged and assumes it is with Charles, so she feels discouraged.
She goes back to the moors to visit her father's grave. While driving along the road, she almost hits another car and it is Charles inside. When they look over the gorge she sees the old wishing bridge that would have been submerged with the dam. Charles has had it re-located to preserve it for her since he knew she loved it. That was when she also realized that he loved her.
It was a nice read but lost a star because, it was quite difficult to see Charles' feelings for her, mostly he just acted like a caring uncle. Also, it suspends belief that her long lost relation - just happens to be the builder of the dam whom she hates...
Since she is alone, a neighbor suggests getting in touch with a distant relative to take her under his roof.
Charles is an uncle by marriage, so he comes to take Cathy to his home to live with his step-mom and her daughter in his house. Charles is only home during the weekends due to his work. Cathy is grateful to Charles for taking her in, though they clash a lot since Cathy is still very childish and unconventional due to her upbringing. Nevertheless Cathy and Charles start caring for each other and a good uncle-niece relationship develops. Cathy makes friends with the neighbors, who have a daughter her age. They become responsible for influencing Cathy's more mature and conventional behavior. She was always getting into scrapes, which Charles had to rescue her from.
All this time Cathy expresses her resentment towards the man responsible for building the dam. She blames him for causing her father's death. Even if Charles tries to reason with her she doesn't see it. (There is some mystery about what exactly Charles' work is) As Cathy matures, she starts going out to dances with a local boy, Bill. At one event, she dances with Charles and she feels something different, more than just affection for an uncle.
During a hiking trip to the moors with Bill, they are caught by the mist and both fall down. Cathy is not hurt too badly but has to convalesce in a house on the moors. Although Charles is with her she thinks she is in the house of the man building the dam and gets upset. One day she decides to explore the house and she enters Charles' study. She sees her father's maps. Maps she has shown only to Charles, and she realises that he is the man building the dam. She is hurt and angry and lashes out at him since she thinks he only took care of her to get his hands on the maps. He tries to plead with her and point out that her hatred is misplaced, but Cathy is adamant. She leaves him and gets a job in another town. After several months, she misses him and realizes that she has been acting selfishly and immaturely but she is unsure of how he will react if she comes back. Then, she hears that the step sister is engaged and assumes it is with Charles, so she feels discouraged.
She goes back to the moors to visit her father's grave. While driving along the road, she almost hits another car and it is Charles inside. When they look over the gorge she sees the old wishing bridge that would have been submerged with the dam. Charles has had it re-located to preserve it for her since he knew she loved it. That was when she also realized that he loved her.
It was a nice read but lost a star because, it was quite difficult to see Charles' feelings for her, mostly he just acted like a caring uncle. Also, it suspends belief that her long lost relation - just happens to be the builder of the dam whom she hates...
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October 17, 2024I read it and am not going to rate it. 1969 was a century ago in romance writing. This is a Mills & Boon romance and is set in Scotland. I first read an American Harlequin in 1980 and it rocked my reading world. It could not have been as proper as this one was. This book came to me with some other old books. I knew that it would be way different than today’s MF, and it was. The worst thing about it was the ‘big misunderstanding’ trope in every chapter. No one used their words. Characters would look knowingly at the unhappy MCs and not help them out by sharing what they knew to resolve the unhappiness.
It was irritating. Everything was a dusty trope with cliched characters. Thank goodness when romance writers like Janet Dailey busted MF romance open with real situations and on page sexuality.
The plot line here is a take on ‘Daddy Long Legs.’
H takes in the h as her unofficial uncle as she is about to be homeless by his engineering company constructing a man made loch and flooding a huge area, including her home. She hates the construction and the big boss, whom she has never met. He is the devil in her eyes, so guess who the uncle is? She is a dim bulb who cannot put all the clues together as to what his company is constructing. He is stiff and unyielding, but underneath is falling for her. Add in some colorful characters and they still couldn’t save this snooze fest.
Long live real romance books! 😉
It was irritating. Everything was a dusty trope with cliched characters. Thank goodness when romance writers like Janet Dailey busted MF romance open with real situations and on page sexuality.
The plot line here is a take on ‘Daddy Long Legs.’
H takes in the h as her unofficial uncle as she is about to be homeless by his engineering company constructing a man made loch and flooding a huge area, including her home. She hates the construction and the big boss, whom she has never met. He is the devil in her eyes, so guess who the uncle is? She is a dim bulb who cannot put all the clues together as to what his company is constructing. He is stiff and unyielding, but underneath is falling for her. Add in some colorful characters and they still couldn’t save this snooze fest.
Long live real romance books! 😉
October 25, 2011
There was no synopsis here so copied this from fictiondb
Cathy had fiercely hated the vague image of someone she held responsible for her father's death. It was a shock to discover that person was Charles Blythe. It turned her world upside-down. She had loved Charles -- as a benefactor and then as a man.
"You think I can't manage on my own," she cried. "Well, I can. And when I leave, I never want to see you again!"
Cathy had fiercely hated the vague image of someone she held responsible for her father's death. It was a shock to discover that person was Charles Blythe. It turned her world upside-down. She had loved Charles -- as a benefactor and then as a man.
"You think I can't manage on my own," she cried. "Well, I can. And when I leave, I never want to see you again!"
October 7, 2018
Miss Kitty's review covers it perfectly. The connection between the h and the H just isn't clear on his part.
September 13, 2017
Realmente terminei o livro com um gosto azedo na boca, já não me bastasse o último que desceu rasgando, agora esse. Cathy é uma personagem que de tão ingênua chega a ser burra e fantasiosa, em contra-partida dá vontade de bater-lhe por ser tão atrevida, petulante e sem regras. Começa com um ódio contra o homem que constrói a barragem que destruiu sua casa, mas passa a morar então com um tio que não é parente e do nada se apaixona por ele. E faz mil burradas, então foge e um belo dia o vê de novo e pá, descobre que ele é o tal cara construtor da represa que usou seus conhecimentos e mapas que ela mesma fez para poder erguer a barragem sem erros e usando da mentira para isso. Mas eles estão tão apaixonados um pelo outro que largam suas vidas para ficar juntos. Um clichê falso, de personagens inexistentes em qualquer realidade. Não recomendo a leitura ainda mais depois de certas cenas de grande conotação "titio quer pegar sobrinha feat. pedofilia romantizada".
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August 1, 2019
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October 11, 2018
This was in my mum's mills and boon collection when I read it first. Liked the story at the time.
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