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Marrying Mary
by
Betty Neels
A perfect wife?
Everyone in her family had agreed that Mary Pagett would one day make some man a perfect wife. The problem was that the only man Mary had ever even thought about marrying was eminent Dutch heart specialist Roel van Rakesma.
From the moment he had walked into her life Mary had become quite contrary—turning from a practical girl into a hopeless romantic. But it...more
Everyone in her family had agreed that Mary Pagett would one day make some man a perfect wife. The problem was that the only man Mary had ever even thought about marrying was eminent Dutch heart specialist Roel van Rakesma.
From the moment he had walked into her life Mary had become quite contrary—turning from a practical girl into a hopeless romantic. But it...more
Mass Market Paperback, 253 pages
Published
January 1st 1998
by Harlequin Books
(first published 1996)
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I couldn't give this one five stars. It should've been a great story and might've been if it had been 20 pages longer. I though the romance was too rushed and didn't make sense. Our hero spent more time with the heroine's teenage sister than with the heroine. They were both very strong characters and didn't get along very well - misunderstandings of course. I would've liked to see the more gradual development of their relationship that Betty Neels is so good at. It was like she was cut off here.
So, in this one, the inevitably useless mother makes a living painting Christmas cards. She has earned enough to purchase a "hut" where she goes to paint. (As in, "mother's in her hut." Or "go out to mother's hut and tell her dinner is ready.") There's something fundamentally hysterical about the word "hut."
It was OK but more a 2 1/2 star -- there wasn't enough to make it unique. It did adore the servants and the younger sister but I seriously got into despise territory w/the parents. Their selfishness really grated on me. Neels is just too forgiving.
Classic Betty Neels, old fashioned and comforting.
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Betty Neels was born on September 15, 1910 in Devon to a family with firm roots in the civil service. She said she had a blissfully happy childhood and teenage years, which stood her in good stead for the tribulations to come with the Second World War. She was sent away to boarding school, and then went on to train as a nurse, gaining her SRN and SCM, that is, State Registered Nurse and State Cert...more
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