No Time for Love

by Barbara Cartland

Mistakenly, Wynstan Vanderfeld believes Larina Milton is an adventuress, and Larina believes she only has twenty-one days to live

Genres: Romance, Historical Romance, Fiction, Historical Fiction

270 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1999

About the author

Born in 1901, Barbara Cartland started her writing career in journalism and completed her first book, Jigsaw, when she was just 24. An immediate success, it was the start of her journey to becoming the world’s most famous and most read romantic novelist of all time. Inspiring a whole generation of readers around the globe with her exciting tales of adventure, love and intrigue, she became synonymous with the Romance genre. And she still is to this day, having written over 644 romantic fiction books.
As well as romantic novels, she wrote historical biographies, 6 autobiographies, plays, music, poetry and several advice books on life, love, health and cookery – totalling an incredible 723 books in all, with over 1 billion in sales.
Awarded the DBE by Queen Elizabeth II in 1991 in honour of her literary, political and social contributions, she was President of the Hertfordshire branch of the Royal College of Midwives as well as a Dame of Grace of the Order of St John of Jerusalem and Deputy President of the St John Ambulance Brigade.
Always a passionate advocate of woman’s health and beauty, she was dubbed ‘the true Queen of Romance’ by Vogue magazine in her lifetime. Her legend continues today through her wonderfully vivid romantic tales, stories that help you escape from the day to day into the dramatic adventures of strong, beautiful women who battle, often against the odds, eventually to find that love conquers all.
Find out more about the incredible life and works of Dame Barbara Cartland at www.barbaracartland.com

Reviews

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very simplistic plot and the characters were nothing special, they felt sort of hollow. This one had a rushed ending that was not only cheesy, but almost annoying with how she chose to wrap up the whole plot in less than 4 pages. I can't stand when a book has a nice flow, things take their course, it's super detailed throughout every scene and chapter.... and then BAM! End of book that lacks any depth and feels insincere with it's closure. It had such potential but never got there, kind of disappointed considering some of the content that I find enjoyable (i.e. Greek mythology).

[Minnie · Rating 1 out of 5]

At the hotel where I recently spent a holiday, this book was in the library. On a whim I decided to return to a writer that I had enjoyed greatly when I was 12 years old. Bad bad decision!
Even for a seriously light romantic writer, this was a disaster. i remember Mz Cartland with at least pretensions to a story line. Generally virginal heroine meets strong assertive rich hero, they hate each other, he has a dalliance with some rich haughty unworthy female but the heroine is saved by him and they fall in love. Than there is an incendiary consummation, by means of a kiss. The latter generally reads as follows "For a moment Larina felt her lips cold against his then something wild and ecstatic ran through her like forked lightning"!
Except for the kiss, which wasn't even at the end of the story, this was feeble and forgettable.
I was lead astray Gentle Reader by the rather sweet illustration on the paperback that has been the trademark of all Cartland novels.
As someone once said, the past is a country that you cannot revisit. I should have listened.

[Cyndi Goodgame · Rating 4 out of 5]

With the exception of being dumb enough to fall for the evildoer's plot...fun read. I Ioved the Roman and Greek references. "Read again" pile.