A Passion for Passion: A Delirious Love Letter to Romance

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A Passion for Passion is a love letter to romance fiction. It celebrates the joyful silliness of books that are written to follow the rules.

Alice Fraser has a special place in her heart for the sweeping silliness of romance novels. The journey to reach a believable Happily Ever After can go via an unbelievable rollercoaster of intensity, through wildly entertaining twists and unlikely turns. To celebrate the unparalleled joy this genre can bring to readers and defy its oft maligned status, Alice has created the author, D'Ancey LaGuarde, the ineffably mysterious, outrageously prolific, undisputed regent of the art of romance.

Collecting together excerpts, book cover designs, character sketches and synopses of 'D'Ancey's' most absurdly frivolous and outlandishly whimsical works: from A Knight of Passion to The Dragon Lord's Lady and Luring the Laird to A Cowboy Called Home, this is an exclusive glimpse into the tropes and dreams that rise like perfumed bubbles through the fecund swamp of the romantic mind, and a fulsome challenge to anyone denying the importance of joy purely for its own sake.

This book will be a constant source of solace and encouragement for romance fans worldwide, and the perfect companion to smuggle into your next ball . . .

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'A predictably brilliant and joyful satirical page-turner from the ever-clever Alice Fraser' Deborah Frances-White, comedian and host of The Guilty Feminist

This tome, surely destined to be regarded as the definitive LaGuarde collection, will take its rightful place in the Romance pantheon, to be read, enjoyed and cuddled as long as this famous species of ours retains an interest in the workings of its own fervid hearts Andy Zaltzman, comedian and host of The Bugle

'A frivolous send-up of romance novels that alternates between meditations on the appeal of various subgenres and satirical back-cover copy for fictional romance books' Publishers Weekly

Author Bio

Alice Fraser shuttles her family between London, smalltown Queensland and alternate dimensions in an attempt to get the best and worst of all worlds. She grew up halfway between suburban Sydney and her own imagination, raised as a Burmese Buddhist by an ex-Catholic and a Jew. She has been named one of the Telegraph's top fifty comedians of the twenty-first century and her stand-up comedy specials are on Amazon Prime, NextUp and the ABC. She has a number of bestselling audio documentaries on Audible and has produced two critically acclaimed babies.