# Love Was a Jest

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- Book: [Love Was a Jest](https://www.bookquiver.com/denise-robins/love-was-a-jest) ([Love Was a Jest.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/denise-robins/love-was-a-jest.md))
- Authors: [Denise Robins](https://www.bookquiver.com/denise-robins)
- Publisher: hodder_stoughton
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4475-085-0
- Published: 2014-06-26
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Scharlie was pushed into marriage by her mother when she was only eighteen. For four years, her middle-aged husband restricted her social life - so much so that, within hours of her first escape, she had fallen passionately in love with handsome, suave, already engaged Hugh.