基本信息出版社：Avon
页码：368 页
出版日期：2004年06月
ISBN：0060531231
条形码：9780060531232
装帧：简装
丛书名：Bridgerton Family Series
外文书名：浪子情深
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The sixth book in the ever popular Bridgerton family series, in which the widowed Francesca Bridgerton gets a second chance at love.
After only two years of marriage, her husband John, the Earl of Kilmartin, dies and Francesca Bridgerton is left tragically widowed at a young age. She turns to Michael Stirling, John's first cousin and closest friend, for comfort only to have him flee the country and abandon her out of fear of acting on his long–harboured forbidden love for her.
When Michael finally returns, everything is different and the air is charged with possibility. After four years of mourning John, Francesca is quite certain she will never love again, but thinks she can be content with someone else. However, Michael's passionate feelings toward Francesca have never wavered and he is willing to sacrifice everything to convince her that his love is strong enough for them both.
作者简介
Julia Quinn started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since. The New York Times bestselling author of sixteen novels for Avon Books, she is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and lives with her family in the Pacific Northwest.
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From Publishers Weekly
Unlike the hero of Quinn''s newest Regency-era romance, who falls in love with his cousin''s wife upon first sight, readers won''t be swept off their feet by the protagonists of this tale. Indeed, while Michael Stirling, dubbed the Merry Rake, is charming enough, subdued Francesca Bridgerton rarely seems worthy of his pursuit. All is well at the novel''s outset, aside from the fact that Michael covets his cousin, the Earl of Kilmartin''s, wife. Then, barely two chapters into the book, his cousin suffers an aneurysm and dies. Devastated and unable to cope with his new position as earl and his feelings for Francesca, Michael flees to India for four years, only to return still very much in love and suffering from malaria. In London, the two attend social events, trade quips and try to restore their friendship, but the more intimate they become, the more their feelings of guilt gnaw at them. Guilt is the only thing that stands in the way of the couple''s happiness, and it''s often frustrating to witness their slow, overwrought progression from denial to acceptance. While this book possesses some of the qualities that Quinn''s fans have come to expect—sprightly prose, feverish love scenes and well-developed secondary characters—it is weighed down by the sheer intensity of the protagonists'' grief.
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