A phenomenon and a legend in her lifetime, Barbara Cartland has held the
world record four years running as the most prolific author alive. Now,
with her novels being filmed and selling throughout the world, she has
become a household name. But what of the woman behind the legend? Henry
Cloud has looked back into her past life and tells of the unexpected
hardships and the young girl's dreams that produced the first Barbara
Cartland novels, written in her early twenties. He reveals the influence
of men like Lord Beaverbrook, Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Birkenhead
on her life when she was struggling to achieve fame. This was the era of
the dancing Twenties, when she received forty-nine proposals of
marriage. He describes her relationships with both her husbands and her
love and ambition for her talented brother Ronald - her battle to get
him into Parliament and his tragic death in the war. It is a story as
romantic and inspiring as any of her own novels. But Barbara Cartland
has made her reputation not only as a novelist; she succeeded in getting
the law changed to provide camps for gypsies and initiated a Government
enquiry into the housing and conditions of old people. She has
championed the cause of Natural Health and vitamins which have made such
a tremend-ous difference to her own life.
This audiobook reveals the secret of her amazing vitality and personal
magnetism which have won her the affection of family and friends, and
have provided a hundred million people all over the world with her
concept of love.
John Pearson was born in 1930, and educated at King's College School,
Wimbledon and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he read history. He has
worked on various newspapers, including the Economist, The Times,
and the Sunday Times where for a time he wrote the Atticus column.
After the success of his Life of Ian Fleming, he decamped with wife
and family to Rome, where he lived for some years. Mr Pearson returned
to ...
