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Brief Ecstasy

Brief Ecstasy

by Denise Robins

19711930sContemporaryEnglishFictionLove triangle
4.5
Open Library
Open Library

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The pretty young Rosemary takes a job in Spain. The train journey to Malaga seems to cast a magic spell over her. For those few brief hours she knew a passionate, ecstasy with handsome Paul. But on meeting Mercedes, the girl to whom she is to be companion, Rosemary's dreams of love are abruptly shattered. For Mercedes is engaged to marry Don Pablo Iballo - who is none other than Paul himself! Rosemary should try to teach her reticent ward the responsibility one must honor if one makes a promise -- especially the promise of marriage. But Mercedes is desperately in love with an out-of-work musician, and Rosemary, hurt and angered by Pablo's reprehensible behaviour, thinks of a revenge plan to deceive him. On the day of the wedding she changes places with Mercedes; and her face hidden by the heavy veil, the ceremony went through. When the plot is discovered, the proud Spaniard finds he has been tricked into marrying the wrong woman, and happy she thinks she'll never have to fulfill the promises of a wife-to-be. But the cheated groom has other ideas: he does not send her reticent wife in fury like she had imagined, he believes that her should fulfil her duties to save his Spanish honor. What will happen next?

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1930sContemporaryEnglishFictionLove triangleRomance
First published 1971

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Setting

Malaga

About the author

Denise Robins
Denise Robins

1 February 1897 – 1 May 1985

Denise Naomi Klein was born on 1 February 1897 in London, England, daughter of Herman Klein (1856-1934) and Kathleen Clarice Louise Cornwell (1872-1954). Her parents married on 19 February 1890 at the West London Synagogue, her father was a English music critic, author and teacher of singing and her mother was a Australian-born heiress, 16 years younger than him. Denise had a half-sister, Sibyl Klein, who became an actress. She also had two older brothers, Adrian Bernard L. Klein (1892-1969), who later changed his name to Adrian Cornwell-Clyne and wrote books on photography and cinematography, and Daryl Kleyn (b. 1894). During her parents marriage, her mother began an affair with a young Wor…

Author

Denise Robins

First published

1971

Pages

158

Read time

≈ 4h

Editions

10

Language

English

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

ISBN

9781444782080

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