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The Passionate Heart
Late-Victorian England. For Mary, marriage offers a welcome escape from her suffocating home life. But the young bride discovers a stark difference between her romantic dreams and married life. Another sharply-observed, bittersweet novel from modern classic bestseller Ursula Bloom.Praise for Ursula ‘… with every book she adds something to her reputation.’ Daily TelegraphGeorge Carew seems ideal husband material to Mary. But the reality does not live up to the ideal. A chance meeting with naval officer Peter Lloyd shows Mary how different her life could be. Can she break free from convention and follow her heart's desire, or must she settle for what polite society expects of her?Timeless Classics Collection by Ursula WONDER CRUISETHREE SISTERSDINAH'S HUSBANDTHE PAINTED LADYTHE HUNTER'S MOONFRUIT ON THE BOUGHTHREE SONSFACADEFORTY IS BEGINNINGTHE PASSIONATE HEARTNINE LIVESSPRING IN SEPTEMBERLOVELY SHADOWTHE GOLDEN FLAMEMany more titles coming soon.More praise for Ursula ‘Ursula Bloom writes in a delightful way, with a deep understanding of human nature and a quick eye for the humorous things in life.’ Cambridge Daily News‘She has always been able to tell a story.’ Everyman ‘Vividly entrancing.’ Scotsman
464 pages, Paperback
First published May 31, 1973
About the author
Ursula Bloom
310 books17 followersaka Sheila Burns, Mary Essex, Rachel Harvey, Deborah Mann, Lozania Prole
Ursula was born in Essex, but as a child lived in Whitchurch, Warwickshire, where her father, James Harvey Bloom, was the Rector of the village. She went on to write books about his work into their family history.
Ursula published over 500 books in her lifetime, an achievement that once won her recognition in the Guinness Book of Records. She wrote many of her novels under pseudonyms - Sheila Burns, Mary Essex, Rachel Harvey, Deborah Mann, Lozania Prole and Sara Sloane.
Her work was predominantly romantic, although her first book, Tiger, privately printed, was written when she was seven years old. She was encouraged to write by a family friend, a well-known author of the time - Marie Corelli.
Born into the fringes of middle class, with aspirations of grandeur but little money, Ursula became a master of story-telling in her own life - keeping up appearances with an imaginary housemaid because "it would have been a social stigma to do our own work" and pretending to her first husband that she could control the servants and not they her - writing was both an outlet and easy with someone of her imagination and humour.
She married twice - in 1916 to Arthur Brownlow Denham-Cookes, to whom she had one son, Pip, born in 1917, and in 1925 to Charles Gower Robinson.
Ursula was born in Essex, but as a child lived in Whitchurch, Warwickshire, where her father, James Harvey Bloom, was the Rector of the village. She went on to write books about his work into their family history.
Ursula published over 500 books in her lifetime, an achievement that once won her recognition in the Guinness Book of Records. She wrote many of her novels under pseudonyms - Sheila Burns, Mary Essex, Rachel Harvey, Deborah Mann, Lozania Prole and Sara Sloane.
Her work was predominantly romantic, although her first book, Tiger, privately printed, was written when she was seven years old. She was encouraged to write by a family friend, a well-known author of the time - Marie Corelli.
Born into the fringes of middle class, with aspirations of grandeur but little money, Ursula became a master of story-telling in her own life - keeping up appearances with an imaginary housemaid because "it would have been a social stigma to do our own work" and pretending to her first husband that she could control the servants and not they her - writing was both an outlet and easy with someone of her imagination and humour.
She married twice - in 1916 to Arthur Brownlow Denham-Cookes, to whom she had one son, Pip, born in 1917, and in 1925 to Charles Gower Robinson.
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