The White Marriage

by Charlotte Bingham

The White Marriage Bingham, Charlotte

Genres: Romance

Paperback

First published August 1, 2007

About the author

The Honourable Charlotte Mary Thérèse Bingham was born on 29 June 1942 in Haywards Heath, Sussex, England, UK. Her father, John Bingham, the 7th Baron Clanmorris, wrote detective stories and was a secret member of MI5. Her mother, Madeleine Bingham, née Madeleine Mary Ebel, was a playwright. Charlotte first attended a school in London, but from the age of seven to 16, she went to the Priory of Our Lady's Good Counsel school in Haywards Heath. After she left school, she went to stay in Paris with some French aristocrats with the intention of learning French. She had written since she was 10 years old and her first piece of work was a thriller called Death's Ticket. She wrote her humorous autobiography, called Coronet Among the Weeds, when she was 19, and not long before her twentieth birthday a literary agent discovered her celebrating at the Ritz. He was a friend of her parents and he took off the finished manuscript of her autobiography. In 1963, this was published by Heinemanns and was a best seller.

In 1966, Charlotte Bingham's first novel, called Lucinda, was published. This was later adapted into a TV screenplay. In 1972, Coronet Among the Grass, her second autobiography, was published. This talked about the first ten years of her marriage to fellow writer Terence Brady. They couple, who have two children, later adapted Coronet Among the Grass and Coronet Among the Weeds, into the TV sitcom No, Honestly. She and her husband, Terence Brady, wrote three early episodes of Upstairs, Downstairs together, Board Wages, I Dies from Love and Out of the Everywhere. They later wrote an accompanying book called Rose's Story. They also wrote the episodes of Take Three Girls featuring Victoria (Liza Goddard). In the 1970s Brady and Bingham wrote episodes for the TV series Play for Today, Three Comedies of Marriage, Yes, Honestly and Robin's Nest. During the 1980s and 1990s they continued to write for the occasional TV series, and in 1993 adapted Jilly Cooper's novel Riders for the small screen. Since the 1980s she has become a romance novelist. In 1996 she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Reviews

[Lynda Atkinson]

After reading the first few pages of this book I thought I was not going to like it, that it was not really my type of book. I carried on and found it a real page turner.

[Alice Chittock]

Charlotte bing hams an old favourite of mine!

[Charlotte Villette]

Full review to follow.

[Amanda Mankelow]

Very enjoyable and faintly humorous read, though for me it took a bit too long to get to the turning point in the story. A French dictionary might have been good to have to hand too. First of Charlotte Bingham's I've read, will definitely try some more of hers.

[June Jones]

This book was given to me, was not very impressed, will try another of hers, to see if they improve

[Ruth Segre]

This is a regency style novel which takes place after 2nd world war with modern twists, but not very impressed!

[Cyndy Kitt Vogelsang]

Sweet and the side characters are quite strong.

[Lorraine Collyns]

I didn’t enjoy this at all. Reminded me of an old fashioned Mills n Boon novel. No depth to it.

[Carina]

A good read once you get into it!

[Ngdecker]

Not her best, but I enjoyed reading this.