102:. Over a period of four decades, she has produced a body of sensuous work that investigates heritage, family, class and love. Her forte is to encode the opposing reading within the classic Harlequin plot. A synopsis of the author that accompanies her publications notes that she researched the market for romance fiction before electing to write in this category. Her first book published in North America established her reputation as a gifted storyteller. She has a strong vital writing style.
113:" of the 1970s. As such she was also one of the first to create a modern romantic heroine: independent, imperfect, and perfectly capable of initiating a sexual or romantic relationship. However, under Kay Thorpe's expert analysis, the modern romantic heroine had to re-evaluate her age-old perceptions of what constituted love and marriage: she had to accept love unconditionally without looking for security in marriage.
429:(1979), says that there are women and there are women, some you use and some you cherish. If Kay showcases two types of women, one who is trading in security for love, and the other who is trading in love for money, she also brings about two competing urges in men, one who is looking for a life partner, and the other who is ready to walk away from a woman without a backward glance. As Liam in
863:(1969) acknowledges that she was emotionally unfaithful to her husband if not sexually. She went to this other man for friendship that meant gentleness, tenderness and kindness, which for her construed an emotional cocoon. As Brad in Opportune Marriage (1969) says for everything that he was not. While Brad realizes what was lacking in him, Sara convinces Steve in
387:(1983) a forty-something lead actress Emily worries that casting her daughter Gemma in the same Broadway production with herself may bring out the advances in her age. The mother-daughter relationship becomes more poignant when Gemma accuses Logan of being a past lover of her mother. Although Logan denies the charge, there is no denying that the mother in
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instance, but she finds that it can be an irritating interruption when she's preoccupied with work on a novel, so the quality of her efforts in the kitchen tend to be a little erratic. She says, "As my husband once remarked, my writing gives life a fascinating element of uncertainty: one day a perfect coq au vin, the next day a couple of burned chops!"
391:(1981) solicits sex from her son-in-law, which he declines albeit politely giving her the benefit of the doubt as needing for herself a full-blooded affair. Somewhere in her books Kay Thorpe throws in that British men think nothing much of their middle-aged wives, who still yearn for the love and romance of their not so far away youth.
629:(1978), on the other hand, admits to the dominant streak in Liam. But in the wake of her first admission comes a second one that Liam would love her like no other man can. This admission does not readily surface in Kay's other heroines. Therefore, the primary struggle is to fight against it. Ramon observes in
986:(1981) is a Kay Thorpe classic. Regan and Keir are such meaningful names where the name Regan, stands out with pride like its namesake and Keir, an outlandish name suits someone who does something outlandish, coveting a girl beyond his social periphery and then turning hurt pride into zeal and determination.
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380:(1987), she considers the difficult personality of Kyle's mother as well as his brother. Kyle reassures Lisa that both mother and son can find alternative residences to stay. But Kyle's sentiment shifts in favor of his sister, which prompts him to mock Lisa, "Will Madalyn be a problem?".
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182:, who showcase Scotland and New Zealand in their stories, Kay Thorpe gives her readers a taste for a myriad of locations. By and large, her stories are based on three locations, namely England, Canada and Africa. There are also stories based in Spain, Italy, South America,
807:(1983), Logan wants to convince himself that he can stay in it indefinitely and as such can't help but talk only about himself: Gemma doesn't bore him, she doesn't fill the place with clutter, to which Gemma secretly smiles thinking to herself that just give her time.
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441:(1983) must decide if marriage is meant for him. Although the romance series is designed to win the hearts of women, it is up to Kay's heroines to convince and to win over the hearts of these men so to propel them to make a choice in their favor.
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882:(1985), Andreas asks Lyn that she doesn't really know him, does she? Although she is mortified by this discovery, he is unperturbed. Lyn finally realizes that she has all the years ahead of her to find out the answer to his query.
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687:(1978) tells Sara that a man can have sex with a woman with no strings attached. Therefore, for such an association to mature into any kind of relationship, women have to realize their own sexual potential to the fullest.
327:(1981). Mention of public vs private schools, manner born, Irish vs English blood, cockney vs upper-class accents that indicate subtleties in class background make their way into her stories from the very first
803:(1971), Ryan tells Kerry that for men a career would suffice whereas women want a home and a family. Therefore, Kay's men don't see the point in marriage unless it lasts. While proposing marriage to Gemma in
744:(1978) also tells Sara that a vast majority of women cannot have sex with men without being emotionally attached. This perception is not always forthcoming in all of Kay's male protagonists. And so, Kim in
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695:(1977) tells Tara that it is not enough that she makes herself available but that she needs to be all woman in order to let their sexual chemistry work for the benefit of their marriage.
621:(1972) Nikos Alexandros explains to Nickey that she will never be happy if the man does not dominate her. Nickey comes back smartly saying that British women are not as accommodating as
658:(1979), Ryan responds to the same query by saying if two people are of the same mind, then one becomes superfluous, Gina's tentative answer to which is that one can agree to disagree.
856:(1978), the couple's marriage falls apart when Steve is unable to tolerate Sara's infidelity on the basis that sex aside, she must have been emotionally attached to the other man.
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848:(1969) suspects Lisa of infidelity, he confronts her directly but his emotions go flat when he asks whether she is in love. This is in keeping with another assertion made in
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1454:1935 births
1368:Anne Mather
1019:(1974) and
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910:Full Circle
887:Full Circle
865:Full Circle
854:Full Circle
850:Full Circle
819:Full Circle
742:Full Circle
723:Win or Lose
685:Full Circle
509:(1979) and
503:Win or Lose
472:Full Circle
463:(1988). In
459:(1983) and
416:Full Circle
412:promiscuous
358:(1983) and
350:(1973) and
341:Win or Lose
304:Reserve in
237:Nova Scotia
233:Timber Boss
224:(1977) and
215:Copper Lake
213:(1978) and
211:Timber Boss
1428:Categories
1317:Anne Weale
1313:Flora Kidd
935:(1981) is
929:tenderness
891:vulnerable
839:infidelity
834:infidelity
735:reciprocal
592:resistance
580:Flora Kidd
564:narratives
533:Kay Thorpe
420:Swiss bank
302:Masai Mara
176:Flora Kidd
148:Kay Thorpe
146:Sometimes
133:Derbyshire
122:Kay Thorpe
88:Kay Thorpe
50:Occupation
34:Kay Thorpe
970:follows.
968:happiness
933:Floodtide
925:chemistry
566:give the
543:intimate
515:Floodtide
511:Skin Deep
489:world in
389:Floodtide
263:engineers
242:Keith in
117:Biography
63:1968–2006
1015:(1973),
921:intimacy
859:Lisa in
796:(1985).
790:fidelity
772:security
755:so that
753:security
746:Iron Man
727:Iron Man
689:Cynicism
655:Paradise
614:(1981).
606:(1974),
555:and her
553:marriage
521:(1969).
455:(1971),
451:(1968),
343:(1986).
335:(1980),
293:(1980).
285:(1974),
279:Tanzania
261:British
217:(1981).
209:(1976),
54:Novelist
1031:point.
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945:emotive
872:virtues
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785:Tripoli
673:Tripoli
572:heroine
499:snooker
445:Theater
271:deserts
203:subplot
199:British
174:Unlike
1029:climax
903:career
768:libido
700:libido
667:mantra
663:sexual
639:Safari
541:female
487:circus
269:, the
252:Sydney
78:Spouse
60:Period
1025:motif
876:vices
651:? In
641:South
623:Greek
600:price
576:trait
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306:Kenya
275:Libya
68:Genre
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937:love
874:and
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731:that
574:, a
568:hero
562:Her
549:love
537:male
319:The
178:and
81:Tony
40:Born
914:ego
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