Jigsaw

When she leaves her French convent school for London's glittering society, Mona dreams of a passionate love—yet finds herself caught between the demands of duty and the pull of temptation. Her calculating mother seeks a convenient match, her charming brother courts chaos, and two very different men vie for her heart: the noble, reserved Peter Brayton, and the dangerous, magnetic Alec, whose seductive shadow hides the power to ruin.

In the bloom of newfound freedom, Mona's journey sweeps her from candlelit ballrooms and Paris salons to the wild, lonely moors of Scotland. Each step forces her to unravel secrets of her own heart—and decide which love is worth risking everything for.

This 100-Year Anniversary Edition of Jigsaw celebrates Barbara Cartland's debut masterpiece. First published in 1925 and adored ever since, a timeless novel is perfect for readers discovering the fierce spirit and courage of Barbara Cartland heroines for the first time.



Dame Barbara Cartland was one of the most successful and well-known of all British romance novelists and was undoubtedly the most prolific, writing 723 books in her long lifetime of which 675 are romantic novels and include 160 brand new titles that are currently being published as the Barbara Cartland Pink Collection.



She wrote across a wide variety of genres, but is of course most closely associated with romance, and with her stories of chaste heroines, dashing heroes and everyone finally living happily ever after. Barbara was a colourful character in many senses of the word and was as well known for her controversial and witty interviews and absorbingly exciting life story as she was for her bright pink clothes and extravagant appearance.



To read Barbara Cartland's life story is to be impressed that someone could fit so much into only one life. As well as writing a staggering number of books, she was also involved with great advances in many diverse fields from aviation to alternative medicine and helped many groups who she perceived as being unfairly treated, from midwives in poor working conditions to Romany gypsy children who wanted to be allowed to attend school.



She was fascinatingly contradictory in her interviews and novels, Barbara often extolled the virtues of traditional relationships between men and women and falling in love, but hers is the story of a driven, independent-minded woman who was unafraid to turn her hand to anything which interested her and right wrongs Barbara Cartland is synonymous with traditional romantic fiction, but her life story is perhaps just as engrossing as her fiction.