Cartland, Barbara: Love and Linda

In this gritty and heart-rending rags to riches and romance, beautiful young Belinda Linda Snell adventures take her careering from lowly theatrical beginnings, to the West End stage and the dizzy heights of the Paris fashion scene. And throughout her rollercoaster ride of a life, she craves for love, which seems to slip tantalisingly through her fingers every time it’s within her ever more desperate clutches. Pursued by all the wrong men and eluded by the right ones, no sooner has she fallen in love with world famous aviator Harry, than he’s killed in his latest daring mission and her young friend Bessie dies horribly after her gentleman got her into trouble. Even when in desperation she marries the wrong man for all the wrong reasons and finally becomes Lady Glaxly, love and happiness are still forlorn and distant dreams Until one unlikely man holds out the hope that Linda will finally find a true and lasting love.