Old School Patricia Hagan covers

Love and Glory

Love's Wine

The Raging Hearts

Random cover oddness

Kinda creepy hero:

Nurse Jane's Choice by Dan Ross.

A line you wouldn't necessarily see on a modern WWL romance:

"Dominic didn't really like women - until he saved Chantel's life...

This one has me a bit lost

How does Eliza Herron get the nickname "Gay Go Up" and just what does it mean anyway??

Gay Go Up by Anne Hepple

I Love A Lass by Elizabeth Cadell

Typing out Vintage Blurbs can be a pain in the tush, but sometimes it is interesting too. Whether it makes me snort outloud with laughter like the line:
"But now here she was in Las Palmas in the Canary Islands. Already two men were competing for the pleasure of introducing her to the gay night life of the island."
Childish I know, but the image of a good 1960s girl visiting a bunch of gay night clubs, entertained me for quite a while.

And sometimes, just plain interesting to me, today that is the blurb for I Love A Lass by Elizabeth Cadell:

"The bright young creatures who inhabit Elizabeth Cadell's special world have never been more charming than in this gay, light-hearted story of doubtful doings in France.
And, as ever, the generations are no problem for Mes. Cadell, whose winning books are the more appealing for their well-mannered warfare between the age groups. Thus a very old lady and a very young boy are as important to this double love affair as salt and pepper are to a proper lunch.
The lovers themselves are splendid Cadell characters: Sebastian, a rich young English bachelor who has spent his life driving fast cars and dodging hopeful mothers; his friend, Joss, a quietly unorthodox good guy; and Jessica de Vries, a pleasant prospect for anybody's hand – or money.
First there is a strike, and Joss and Sebastian find themselves stranded in France. No car – no vacation!
Then alors! The Countess buys a taxi. What else? And who should drive it but these perfect strangers with their peculiar baggage.
An old chateau – the sunny summer charm of France – the pleasantly preposterous antics of young men in love – these combine to make this novel one of Mrs. Cadell's most successful recipes for reading pleasure."

PS. Typo of the day has to be me typing out I Love A Less in the title to this post. :D

Another ummm interesting cover.

I'm not sure whether I am more disturbed by the heroine or the hero on this cover...
While the heroine looks terminally ill, the red-headed hero looks like a professor I had at uni, who was in his sixties.
It is just awkward.. and gloomy... and disturbing.

Especially when you factor in the cheery type from the front cover: "If you reach for the stars, your hands may remain empty." Doctor on the Snow by Leslie Lance.

When was the last time..

You heard a romance hero referred to as "a spoilt and sheltered artist"??

The bleak wilds of Yorkshire in February are not an appealing destination by any standards and to Julian Hurst, a sheltered and spoilt artist from London, the prospect was daunting. Furthermore, on his arrival at the house where he was to catalogue a collection of paintings, he made two disconcerting discoveries... He found that the owner, a miserly old man, rationed the coal for heating what was, in Julian's view the coldest, gloomiest mausoleum he had ever encountered. Next he met the cook, a pretty young lady named Alexandra Bell with whom he was forced to bargain for the very blankets on his bed.
For the first time in his life, Julian Hurst suddenly found himself accepting defeat in the face of a pair of cool blue eyes that seemed to be laughing at him...

The Cuckoo in Spring by Elizabeth Cadell here