Books like Love at forty by Barbara Cartland

Marcia Fletcher, a youthful and striking woman, has spent years as her father's companion, awaiting a marriage that would grant her the freedom she craves. On the sunlit Riviera, Marcia encounters a flurry of suitors—yet none stir her heart. Her heart is tugged by a promise of companionship and companionship bound by duty, as her life in the Riviera is marred by a bewildering lack of purpose and longing. She is drawn to the enigmatic Malcolm Worthington, a widower and marriage offer that challenges her expectations for love. She refuses to withhold emotion and argues that he might love her. Malcov scores his passion to be allowed to put together a plan of resolution. The stage of these stories is a bright cinematic backdrop that becomes a hinge on a storyline about the longings'' narrative of a woman that escapes uncertainty and her loneliness, gathered by marriage for a step into the new life of something unknown.

First publish date: 1937