An Affair To Remember: The Greatest Love Stories Of All Time

Author: Megan Gressor

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Description

All the world loves a lover, so the saying goes. An Affair to Remember is a warm and intimate account of many of the worldâÃÂÃÂs greatest love stories âÃÂàcaptivating tales of grand passions, charismatic personalities and extraordinary exploits. Some of these affairs shocked the world, others altered the course of history.

Included in this book are the stories of Lord Byron and Lady Caroline Lamb, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson, Napoleon and Josephine, Aristotle Onassis and Maria Callas, Victoria and Albert, Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, and many more. But whether their outcomes were happy or tragic, all make fascinating reading âÃÂàand all were affairs to remember.

Author description

Megan Gressor and Kerry Cook are Sydney-based sisters who have long shared a fascination for the history of romance. Megan Gressor is a journalist, editor and critic. She is the author of five non fiction books. Kerry Cook is a teacher, television scriptwriter and author of a novel and two works of non fiction. They are currently researching a companion volume to An Affair to Remember.