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Hazard Of Love

by Sally Heywood

Published 1991187 pagesISBN 978-0-3731-1344-6

"A creature from another planet" That was what Lucas de Maine compared her to. And that was how Goldie felt. After her glamorous existence as a Hollywood starlet, she no longer seemed to have a place in the conventional English village where she'd been born. Still, Lucas's words stung. But then, he was firmly rooted in this community and any woman who married him would have to fit in, too. Would have to be the perfect country wife.... Goldie was forced to play the hardest role she'd ever tackled--especially when Lucas made it clear that he thought she was quite wrong for the part! NOT TRUE - despite all the locals, including 'local gentry' type people in the village, who snub Goldie because her mother, who was also previously a local in the village, when young, left to become a big movie star, turns out to be a bit of a tart, returning to the village and having affairs with Lucas' uncles et all. The locals in the village think Goldie is equally promiscuous and would never be fit to marry Lucas and be the local 'Lady of the Manor' - but Lucas falls for her and thinks she would be PERFECT !... Of course he marries her and they have their HEA!

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA shorter read187 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 1991
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-3731-1344-6
Language
English
Edition record
OL10738765M
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Good to know

Works well for a focused weekend or a few concentrated sittings.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

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