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Love Me Forever
På hemligt uppdrag av premiärministern beger sig hertigen av Melyncourt till Paris. Under färden får han oväntat sällskap av Amé, en ung kvinna som är på flykt från ett nunnekloster. Motvilligt låter han henne gömma sig i sin vagn och tillsammans anländer de till ett Paris som står under den begynnande revolutionens lågor. Det visar sig att Amés historia är komplicerad och att hon har fiender som inte ens hertigens beskydd kan råda bot på. Men trots svårigheterna verkar det som att romantiska känslor börjar uppstå. Kommer kärleken kunna riva barriären mellan dem?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.
238 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1973
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Barbara Cartland
1,083 books834 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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May 16, 2022An inferior rewriting of These Old Shades by Georgette Heye, B.C’s idol.
May 22, 2020
Written in the 1950s. This was a 1970s re-publication.
A favourite of mine from the 1980s. Some similarity with these Old Shades in the sense of a foundling orphan found by a rake and turns out to be of aristocratic birth. I also liked the secondary characters. I found her earlier books to be better written and a little more depth to the storylines than the later romances she routinely wrote.
Synopsis:
Stowaway
A French fondling and a royal Englishmen - could the gulf that separated them be bridged by love?
When Amé fled the convent and hid herself in the Duke’s carriage, she had no idea what awaited her in Paris, a city in the grip of intrigue and revolt. Her pose as his ward could not protect her from her enemies in the French court – nor the realization of her growing love for him. Even the secret of her birth seemed to put another barrier between them.
Must she give up everything her heart desired for the safety of the convent or could the Duke find a way to claim her love – before it was too late?
A favourite of mine from the 1980s. Some similarity with these Old Shades in the sense of a foundling orphan found by a rake and turns out to be of aristocratic birth. I also liked the secondary characters. I found her earlier books to be better written and a little more depth to the storylines than the later romances she routinely wrote.
Synopsis:
Stowaway
A French fondling and a royal Englishmen - could the gulf that separated them be bridged by love?
When Amé fled the convent and hid herself in the Duke’s carriage, she had no idea what awaited her in Paris, a city in the grip of intrigue and revolt. Her pose as his ward could not protect her from her enemies in the French court – nor the realization of her growing love for him. Even the secret of her birth seemed to put another barrier between them.
Must she give up everything her heart desired for the safety of the convent or could the Duke find a way to claim her love – before it was too late?
December 21, 2021
No doubts here , as Lynn Smith says in her review, LMF is almost certainly a rip off of the famous Georgette Heyer's ' These old shades'. There's another novel by Cartland called 'A halo for the devil' which also blatantly plagiarises ' These old shades'. It's almost as though Cartland liked 'These old shades' so much she thought she'd turn it into 2 seperate novels .
Many of Cartland's novels like ' The unpredictable wife' are a rehash of ' Friday's Child' and 'The convenient marriage' by Heyer right down to the infamous race with Lady Letty Lade ! I read that Heyer was furious with Cartland though plagiarism was fervently denied by her sons - Ian & Ron Cartland.
Written against the background of the French Revolution ,the h of LMF -Ame, is a mysterious orphan who has always lived in a convent raised by nuns . She runs away and meets the H who takes her all around Paris as his page disguised as a boy . Ame discovers that her mother is a grand court lady who is close to Marie Antoinette. Interestingly the mother is a real person who actually lived during those turbulent times .
Where this novel stands out is it does not follow the traditional happy ending of all romance novels in general and Barbara Cartland in particular . Ame realises she can't hurt her biological mother's reputation and destroy the increasingly unpopular Marie Antoinette ,so she goes back to the convent and becomes a nun (which may not be a bad thing as she has never really lived a normal life and she enjoys her religion). It's an untypically sad ending and the 13 year old me was very upset by it .....until I grew older and discovered ' These old shades' and comforted myself that Ame is actually Leonie who gets her duke in the end !
Many of Cartland's novels like ' The unpredictable wife' are a rehash of ' Friday's Child' and 'The convenient marriage' by Heyer right down to the infamous race with Lady Letty Lade ! I read that Heyer was furious with Cartland though plagiarism was fervently denied by her sons - Ian & Ron Cartland.
Written against the background of the French Revolution ,the h of LMF -Ame, is a mysterious orphan who has always lived in a convent raised by nuns . She runs away and meets the H who takes her all around Paris as his page disguised as a boy . Ame discovers that her mother is a grand court lady who is close to Marie Antoinette. Interestingly the mother is a real person who actually lived during those turbulent times .
Where this novel stands out is it does not follow the traditional happy ending of all romance novels in general and Barbara Cartland in particular . Ame realises she can't hurt her biological mother's reputation and destroy the increasingly unpopular Marie Antoinette ,so she goes back to the convent and becomes a nun (which may not be a bad thing as she has never really lived a normal life and she enjoys her religion). It's an untypically sad ending and the 13 year old me was very upset by it .....until I grew older and discovered ' These old shades' and comforted myself that Ame is actually Leonie who gets her duke in the end !
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November 4, 2020
Not as good as the others
Barbara Cartland continues to mix older men with young women. But this time I think she went to far; to put a twenty years old man with a eighteen Year old girl for me was too much! The story ended okay but it didn't tell you very much. There wasn't much to the love story and nothing at all to the mystery. I skipped a lot of it.
Barbara Cartland continues to mix older men with young women. But this time I think she went to far; to put a twenty years old man with a eighteen Year old girl for me was too much! The story ended okay but it didn't tell you very much. There wasn't much to the love story and nothing at all to the mystery. I skipped a lot of it.
February 10, 2021
I really enjoyed this book made cry from sheer joy
March 22, 2023
Stowaway
A French foundling and an English lord - could the gulf that separated them be bridged by love?
When Amé fled the convent and hid herself in the Duke’s carriage, she had no idea what awaited her in Paris, a city in the grip of intrigue and revolt. Her pose as his ward could not protect her from her enemies in the French court – nor the realization of her growing love for him. Even the secret of her birth seemed to put another barrier between them.
Must she give up everything her heart desired for the safety of the convent or could the Duke find a way to claim her love – before it was too late?
A French foundling and an English lord - could the gulf that separated them be bridged by love?
When Amé fled the convent and hid herself in the Duke’s carriage, she had no idea what awaited her in Paris, a city in the grip of intrigue and revolt. Her pose as his ward could not protect her from her enemies in the French court – nor the realization of her growing love for him. Even the secret of her birth seemed to put another barrier between them.
Must she give up everything her heart desired for the safety of the convent or could the Duke find a way to claim her love – before it was too late?
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