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Love Song
Book by CHARLOTTE BINGHAM
563 pages, Paperback
First published August 6, 1998
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Charlotte Bingham
75 books76 followersThe 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.
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.
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July 5, 2011
Give me a break.
Woman moves in next door, becomes infatuated with husband, poses as devoted friend to couple, plots during 9 mos of wife's 4th pregnancy to seduce the father of 4 who succumbs to her dubious, simpleton-esque charms while wife is in hospital bed?
You decide if that's worth reading.
Woman moves in next door, becomes infatuated with husband, poses as devoted friend to couple, plots during 9 mos of wife's 4th pregnancy to seduce the father of 4 who succumbs to her dubious, simpleton-esque charms while wife is in hospital bed?
You decide if that's worth reading.
September 27, 2017
A beautiful story, sad but expected ending, tissues required.
July 18, 2020
A wonderful romantic story with some twists and turns along the way, delightful book xx
May 28, 2022
i thought this was really good and it had twists and turns , the heartbreak , the acceptance ,this story was indeed lovely , is there another one about claire in the offering
June 18, 2022
Love Song
Its very moving and sad story to start with and towards the end was full of unexpected events and also intense moments. Good read and I highly recommended it.
Its very moving and sad story to start with and towards the end was full of unexpected events and also intense moments. Good read and I highly recommended it.
October 29, 2015
Hope and Alexander Merriott live with their three daughters Melinda, Rose and Claire in Richmond Park and are enjoying what appears to be a happy life. But things change when a fourth daughter is born. The baby has a beautiful face but a withered arm, and although Hope and her daughters easily extend their love to the new baby, her husband Alexander feels differently. He dislikes the new arrival, who he was hoping would be a boy, and although his daughters are unaware of it, it seems the happiness of the couple depended on it. Alexander’s resentment quickly grows to rejection of his new daughter. At the same time, Hope’s husband’s business faces a downturn and more unhappiness follows.
The underlying tension in the household lies just beneath the surface until Aunt Rosabel their mother’s great aunt arrives for Christmas and things begin to look up. Aunt Rosabel offers the family her large elegant house in Wiltshire, something Alexander has always wanted and dreamed about, but never thought he would have. And once they move into their new home, a neighbor comes to welcome them to the area and creates new fissures in an already fractured family.
I found the characters in this novel flat and the story just a remake of dated plot lines.
Not a book I would recommend.
The underlying tension in the household lies just beneath the surface until Aunt Rosabel their mother’s great aunt arrives for Christmas and things begin to look up. Aunt Rosabel offers the family her large elegant house in Wiltshire, something Alexander has always wanted and dreamed about, but never thought he would have. And once they move into their new home, a neighbor comes to welcome them to the area and creates new fissures in an already fractured family.
I found the characters in this novel flat and the story just a remake of dated plot lines.
Not a book I would recommend.
January 26, 2012
It was OK. That's about all I have to say. At the beginning it was soooo tedious and I had trouble getting into it. The story wasn't very original and I wasn't really surprised by any of the relevations.
I don't think I would read Charlotte Bingham again because I felt that her character development was lacking. I think there were so many characters in the book that there wasn't time to get to know any of them in detail so it made the book seem very shallow.
Typical sad story, happy ending scenario.
I don't think I would read Charlotte Bingham again because I felt that her character development was lacking. I think there were so many characters in the book that there wasn't time to get to know any of them in detail so it made the book seem very shallow.
Typical sad story, happy ending scenario.
January 8, 2014
A long tale ideal for reading when one is indoors at this time if year . Long and boring and so predictable in parts
September 6, 2016
Do not want to read it boring stuff about English?/American? mum & dad & 4 young daughters.
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