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Den motvillige brudgummen
Den unga vackra Sona McCarron reser med sin far till Skottland för att övervara bröllopet mellan markisen av Inver och en dotter till klanens överhuvud. Sona träffar den charmerande Torquil McCarron, som försöker vinna hennes hjärta. Men hon blir hopplöst förälskad i markisen, den blivande brudgummen ...
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.
Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) är den mest produktiva författaren i det tjugonde århundradet. Vi har över 650 böcker från Cartlands romantiska hand. Hennes böcker är översatta till 38 språk, och med över en miljard sålda exemplar kan det inte längre finnas någon tvekan om att Barbara Cartland är en av världens största romantiker.
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.
Barbara Cartland (1901-2000) är den mest produktiva författaren i det tjugonde århundradet. Vi har över 650 böcker från Cartlands romantiska hand. Hennes böcker är översatta till 38 språk, och med över en miljard sålda exemplar kan det inte längre finnas någon tvekan om att Barbara Cartland är en av världens största romantiker.
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Published October 12, 2018
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About the author
Barbara Cartland
1,057 books837 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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March 25, 2024
This was okay, the blurb says it all.
The Hero, heir to the chieftain of the clan, was tricked by his father into an engagement w the daughter of the neighboring clan.
The heroine and her fáther have been invited to attend this wedding so they go off to Scotland. This is the heroine’s first time to go to Scotland, the home and clan of her father, so she is quite excited.
Funnily, she is diappointed that the fiancee of the Hero is quite unattractive. 😁 Not her idea of a fairytale princess, unlike the Hero who does look like her idea of a Prince. Needless to say the Hero himself is quite put out by the looks and dull personality of his own fiancee.
Of course the Hero promptly falls in love w the heroine since she is lively and beautiful, the exact opposite of his fiancee 😂 (poor guy) they cant do anything about the situation though, so it seems that their love will be unfulfilled.
Until….the fiancee goes missing and is feared murdered. A false witness points a finger at the Hero, but the heroine knows she was with him during the “time” in question. The Hero does not want her to reveal this information since it will put her in a compromising circumstance and he does not want any gossip attached to her.
Anyway… the real murderer tries to do away w the heroine as well but she is rescued. The clan now knows the identity of the real murderer of the fiancee, but he gets away. The shock of it all kills the old Duke (the chieftain) so the Hero is now the Duke and chief of his clan.
However the Hero tells the heroine and her father, that though he intends to marry the heroine, they need to wait a few months so no scandal can be attached to the heroine when she becomes his wife.
Some months pass, the heroine and her father are able to prepare a trousseau, and pack up their house in the country. Heroine’s father will now be living in his beloved Scotland again, and the Hero shows up to get his girl and get married.
The end ❤️
P.s.
Also nothing happens to the person who wrongly accused the Hero so, some loose ends here Dame Cartland.
The Hero, heir to the chieftain of the clan, was tricked by his father into an engagement w the daughter of the neighboring clan.
The heroine and her fáther have been invited to attend this wedding so they go off to Scotland. This is the heroine’s first time to go to Scotland, the home and clan of her father, so she is quite excited.
Funnily, she is diappointed that the fiancee of the Hero is quite unattractive. 😁 Not her idea of a fairytale princess, unlike the Hero who does look like her idea of a Prince. Needless to say the Hero himself is quite put out by the looks and dull personality of his own fiancee.
Of course the Hero promptly falls in love w the heroine since she is lively and beautiful, the exact opposite of his fiancee 😂 (poor guy) they cant do anything about the situation though, so it seems that their love will be unfulfilled.
Until….the fiancee goes missing and is feared murdered. A false witness points a finger at the Hero, but the heroine knows she was with him during the “time” in question. The Hero does not want her to reveal this information since it will put her in a compromising circumstance and he does not want any gossip attached to her.
Anyway… the real murderer tries to do away w the heroine as well but she is rescued. The clan now knows the identity of the real murderer of the fiancee, but he gets away. The shock of it all kills the old Duke (the chieftain) so the Hero is now the Duke and chief of his clan.
However the Hero tells the heroine and her father, that though he intends to marry the heroine, they need to wait a few months so no scandal can be attached to the heroine when she becomes his wife.
Some months pass, the heroine and her father are able to prepare a trousseau, and pack up their house in the country. Heroine’s father will now be living in his beloved Scotland again, and the Hero shows up to get his girl and get married.
The end ❤️
P.s.
Also nothing happens to the person who wrongly accused the Hero so, some loose ends here Dame Cartland.
July 28, 2023
Una storia dolce e romantica, una lettura piacevole e leggera.
June 9, 2023
Quando si tratta di quest'autrice dovete partire dal presupposto che i romanzi (forse sarebbe meglio chiamarli racconti lunghi) sono datati. Sia nello stile che nelle storie. Niente scene esplicite (al massimo qualche bacio).
Barbara Cartland era considerata la Regina del romanzo rosa ai suoi tempi e nelle sue storie l’autrice difendeva i valori tradizionali e credeva nella verginità prima del matrimonio.
Tutto inizia quando Sona e suo padre tornano in Scozia come ospiti del Duca di Invercarron per il matrimonio del figlio, il marchese di Inver. Durante il suo soggiorno, Sona s'innamora ricambiata dal futuro sposo e...
La trama non è particolarmente originale ma non importa, il vero problema è che per la brevità ho fatto fatica a capire perché dopo un paio di incontri non particolarmente lunghi, i due si sono immediatamente innamorati. Sona sembra passare più tempo con un altro personaggio che con il marchese, quindi a un certo punto ho pensato che forse si erano sbagliati a scrivere la sinossi del libro.
Improvvisamente poi il romance diventa un giallo ma non aspettatevi niente di sconvolgente. Sappiamo chi sia il colpevole (dobbiamo solo scoprire perché).
Non uno dei miei preferiti di quest'autrice.
Barbara Cartland era considerata la Regina del romanzo rosa ai suoi tempi e nelle sue storie l’autrice difendeva i valori tradizionali e credeva nella verginità prima del matrimonio.
Tutto inizia quando Sona e suo padre tornano in Scozia come ospiti del Duca di Invercarron per il matrimonio del figlio, il marchese di Inver. Durante il suo soggiorno, Sona s'innamora ricambiata dal futuro sposo e...
La trama non è particolarmente originale ma non importa, il vero problema è che per la brevità ho fatto fatica a capire perché dopo un paio di incontri non particolarmente lunghi, i due si sono immediatamente innamorati. Sona sembra passare più tempo con un altro personaggio che con il marchese, quindi a un certo punto ho pensato che forse si erano sbagliati a scrivere la sinossi del libro.
Improvvisamente poi il romance diventa un giallo ma non aspettatevi niente di sconvolgente. Sappiamo chi sia il colpevole (dobbiamo solo scoprire perché).
Non uno dei miei preferiti di quest'autrice.
May 27, 2023
When her father, Colonel Alister McCarron, asks her to accompany him to a family Wedding in the North of Scotland, the beautiful young Sona jumps at the chance, not just to meet her relatives in the venerable McCarron Clan but also to see the dashingly handsome Marquis of Inver, for it is he who is to be wed.
Thrilled by the Fairytale grandeur of Invercarron Castle and her heart fluttering at the Marquis’s considerable charms, Sona is bemused to find that his fiancée is the extremely plain Lady Jean McBora.
Then she overhears that he is being forced by his father to marry Lady Jean to reunite the squabbling McCarron and Borabol clans and to prevent him from marrying a London beauty who would not be suitable for a future Chieftain of the Clan.
And too late to stop herself, she finds that she has fallen hopelessly in love with the Marquis. And he with her. But their love is doomed.
First by his forthcoming marriage of convenience to Lady Jean and then again when the Marquis is charged with the murder of his bride-to-be, a crime that Sona knows in her heart of hearts that he did not commit.
Thrilled by the Fairytale grandeur of Invercarron Castle and her heart fluttering at the Marquis’s considerable charms, Sona is bemused to find that his fiancée is the extremely plain Lady Jean McBora.
Then she overhears that he is being forced by his father to marry Lady Jean to reunite the squabbling McCarron and Borabol clans and to prevent him from marrying a London beauty who would not be suitable for a future Chieftain of the Clan.
And too late to stop herself, she finds that she has fallen hopelessly in love with the Marquis. And he with her. But their love is doomed.
First by his forthcoming marriage of convenience to Lady Jean and then again when the Marquis is charged with the murder of his bride-to-be, a crime that Sona knows in her heart of hearts that he did not commit.
February 24, 2023
The beautiful Sona McCarron and her father journey to Scotland from England. There Sona meets the Marquis of Inver and Torquil McCarron. The Marquis is betrothed to the plain, unattractive Lady Jean. A marriage which has been arranged by the Marquis's father, Duke of Invercarron, Chieftain of the McCarron clan. Sona falls in love with the Marquis and when Lady Jean is murdered, the Marquis is accused of the crime.
I have never read a Barbara Cartland novel before and the only reason I read this book is because the heroine and myself have the same name, Sona. It is, I assume a typical Cartland story. Hand kissing, smouldering kisses and a damsel in distress. Not my usual read, but I have to say I enjoyed it.
I have never read a Barbara Cartland novel before and the only reason I read this book is because the heroine and myself have the same name, Sona. It is, I assume a typical Cartland story. Hand kissing, smouldering kisses and a damsel in distress. Not my usual read, but I have to say I enjoyed it.
January 3, 2017
The handsome hero was in a dire predicament in this one, he was expected to marry an ugly bride. The beautiful heroine was horrified by the idea, but luckily the ugly girl was murdered and the good looking were united. Hurrah!
January 14, 2025
1,5. Cartland's characters are always foul, and her kitschy bitchy Mean Girl act is in full force here, like in a bullying teenage nightmare. Scotland's also a rather mundane setting for her trademark, the exquisitely exotic fairytale scenery.
September 17, 2022
Não funcionou nem um pouco para mim...
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