' He wrapped his arms around her as she stood before him ... their lips met, and were joined in a wedlock so fast, so long enduring, so firm, that it seemed as if they would never be divorced again.'
Twenty-five million copies of new romantic novels are sold in this country each year. Their covers often show two people, one of each sex, who, by their expressions of pensive intensity, are seen to be having an Important Human Relationship.
Rachel Anderson follows the development of the romantic novel and discovers how the motives and attitudes of the novelists themselves have changed over the years. Producer JOHN KNIGHT