Oh god this was awful. To illustrate why, let me quote a few excerpts: her spectacles half-way down her nose as usual she nervously pushed her spectacles into place her eyes blazed at him behind the rims of her spectacles owlish in her spectacles with the big round frames “it’s a wonder he hasn’t arranged […]
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The Honey is Bitter by Violet Winspear
Glorious, vintage romance packed with melodrama, glamour and sexual tension. Violet Winspear’s “The Honey is Bitter” is a classic of its time: from an era of virginal, teenage heroines and rakish, worldly older men. Written in 1967 and published by Mills & Boon you’re clearly not going to get explicit sex, but there’s enough tension […]
Read MoreThe Dangerous Delight by Violet Winspear
This is classic Mills & Boon and classic Violet Winspear. The heroine, Faye, is an English girl living in Portugal. She stumbles across a fairytale castle, and lo! it’s owned by her schoolfriend’s devastatingly sexy uncle, and her schoolfriend is holed up there as a recluse because she had a riding accident which left her […]
Read MoreVintage sexy: try Violet Winspear
If anyone feels like some classic, sexy vintage romance, try Violet Winspear who wrote 70 romance novels in the 1960s, 70s and 80s. You’ll find plenty of power play, age-gap, virginal heroines, coerced marriage and Alpha male themes, with heroes who are, in the author’s own words: “…lean and hard muscled and mocking and sardonic and tough and tigerish and […]
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