Written under the pen name of Pamela Kent (and that's how it is listed in the Guardian's list).

I would have adored this book in my adolescence when I was devouring romance novels! I still found it a pleasant read - nice clean romance. However, the plot was predictable (maybe because of all that teenage reading) and the secondary characters quite two dimensional.

Read as a Kindle book (from KU) ( )

What is this Mills and Boon romance doing on the Guardian 1000 list? I had to find out.

This is a fifties period piece. The blonde heroine is girlish and naive. She wears simple dresses in pastel colours, and little white hats. She doesn't drink. The wicked widow has dark hair, wears purple, is sophisticated, and drinks cocktails. She is so evil that her husband, the best shot in South Africa, committed suicide by lion. She tries to separate our heroine and our hero, a dark, sardonic, sophisticated, older man. Sophistication, an asset in a man, is a disaster in a woman!

I have no idea how this book made it onto the Guardian 1000 list. I quite enjoyed it, but it is tripe. ( )