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A Civil Contract

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Adam Deveril, a hero of Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt.

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Published June 2nd 2005 by Arrow (first published 1961)

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Mar 26, 2010 Hannah rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: regencys, romances, 2010-reads

This is the fifth Heyer I've read, and it's my favorite to date. Given that Georgette Heyer wrote dozens of books, I still have a way to go before I can claim it as my favorite of all, but I think I've sampled enough to get a feel for the type of books she wrote and the character styles she favorited.

A Civil Contract is a departure from the Heyer romantic plotlines. Although marriages of convenience are standard regency romance fare, Heyer takes this and stands it on its head by keeping the hero...more This is the fifth Heyer I've read, and it's my favorite to date. Given that Georgette Heyer wrote dozens of books, I still have a way to go before I can claim it as my favorite of all, but I think I've sampled enough to get a feel for the type of books she wrote and the character styles she favorited.

A Civil Contract is a departure from the Heyer romantic plotlines. Although marriages of convenience are standard regency romance fare, Heyer takes this and stands it on its head by keeping the hero and heroine from ever (yes, EVER) discovering wild, heart-stopping *lurve*. There is no conventional HEA. No passionate liplock or smoldering declaration of deathly love from our hero and heroine. The hero of the story, Adam, is young, vaguely stupid at times, and unintentionally cruel to his lower-class wife throughout the book. Our heroine, Jenny, is not your typical romantic powerhouse at all: She's lower class, dowdy, short-necked, and red-faced. She's also possessed of a meek nature that rarely takes her lordly husband to task for all his slights to her and she seeks only to make him comfortable. She's even willing to help him through his unrealistic obssession with the beautiful and vapid Julia (who would typically be the poster girl for romantic heroines the Regency world over).

Gentle reader, I found it refreshing....

I'm so sick of perfect Mary Sue/Gary Stu characters that look like models, smell like freesia, and fart rainbows and unicorns out their perfectly proportioned buttocks. Oh, sure, it's fun for the first 1,000 or so books, but after 1,001, this wish-fulfillment perfection becomes as stale and repulsive as your breath after a weekend bender.

At least it does to me.

ACC isn't for the HEA obsessed, but for those readers who like a little more realism added to their regency reading romps. Perhaps a bit of age or general cynicism is also helpful in enjoying this book (both qualities I've got in spades).

If you're thinking of reading Heyer for this first time, don't pick up A Civil Contract, as it really doesn't fit her general mold. But if you're tired of the same 'ole/same 'ole complete with the HEA, give this one a try.(less)

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Feb 21, 2011 Sandy Tjan rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, ebook, long-ago-and-never-was

Having just read a god awful Pride and Prejudice ‘sequel’, I wanted to read a bona fide Regency romance, and picked one by no one less than Georgette Heyer, the originator of the genre, and perhaps the only romance novelist who comes with glowing recommendations from A.S. Byatt. Not being a romance reader, I didn’t know what to expect, but I thought that this book is one decidedly odd romance. Imagine pitching it as a rom com/costume drama script to a Hollywood studio executive:

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Mar 18, 2012 Kim rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: buddy-reads-with-jemidar, kindle

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I know from reading Jennifer Kloester’s excellent biography of Georgette Heyer* that A Civil Contract was not an easy novel for Heyer to write. Before starting work on it, Heyer wrote to a friend that she wanted to write a new kind of novel that would be “neither farcical nor adventurous”. Heyer wrote that the novel would depend for its success on whether she could make the hero as charming as she believed him to be and also on whether she “could make a quiet st...more

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Aug 01, 2008 Abigail rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Georgette Heyer Fans / Regency Romance Readers

Shelves: georgette-heyer, romance

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Apr 02, 2012 Hazel rated it 3 of 5 stars

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This is the only Heyer novel I've read where the hero and leading lady develop a lasting relationship based on love rather than being in love. It makes sense to me that he becomes attached to her as a result of a series of loving actions. (As part of my Catholic upbringing, I was taught that love is about what we do, rather than what we feel. :-)) In fact, she made him love her; he didn't wanna do it; he didn't wanna do it. He has no romantic notions about her, and she has to relinquish her ssec...more This is the only Heyer novel I've read where the hero and leading lady develop a lasting relationship based on love rather than being in love. It makes sense to me that he becomes attached to her as a result of a series of loving actions. (As part of my Catholic upbringing, I was taught that love is about what we do, rather than what we feel. :-)) In fact, she made him love her; he didn't wanna do it; he didn't wanna do it. He has no romantic notions about her, and she has to relinquish her ssecret romantic notions about him. None the less, we know by the end that they'll live happily ever after.

As sometimes happens, the supporting characters are more interesting, like her vulgar, upwardly mobile, upstart father who thinks he can buy pretty much everything, and his toxic narcissist of a mother. Bring them all together and watch hilarity ensue. But they're a little sad, and we know it.

With every will in the world to talk pleasantly to him, an over-delicate refinement made Charlotte regard him with much the same nervous surprise as she would have felt at being addressed by an aboriginal. Mr Chawleigh's manner with young females was jocular and paternal. He was convinced that they liked to be comlimented on their looks, and quizzed about their beaux; but his compliments made Charlotte blush; and when he made a sly reference to her approaching nuptials, prophesying that there would be a score of broken hearts when the news was made public, she raised her eyes in astonishment to his face, unable to conceal how little to her taste was this ponderous gallantry.

And about the happy ever after, Abigail...

He took her face between his hands, turning it up, and looking down at her for a moment before he kissed her. 'I do love you, Jenny,' he said gently. 'Very much indeed- and I couldn't do without you. You are a part of my life. Julia was never that- only a boy's impractical dream!'

And a page or so later...

Yet, after all, Jenny thought that she had been granted more than she had hoped for when she had married him. He did love her: differently, but perhaps more enduringly; and he had grown to depend on her. She thought that they would have many years of quiet content: never reaching the heights, but living together in comfort and deepening friendship. Well, you can't have it both ways, she thought, and I couldn't live in alt all the time, so I daresay I'm better off as things are.

Sounds good to me.:-)(less)

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Nov 03, 2007 Darcy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: twentieth-century-novels

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I've read quite a few of Heyer's novels and this one struck me as particularly interesting. Heyer is a legend among romance readers--her characters have depth, the events make sense, and while these are books with more talk than action, that talk is lively and always well written.

Heyer's novels fall into a few categories: silly, young heroine marries worldly hero and the two agree to a "French" marriage, only to discover they are in love; older, independent, soph...more (view spoiler)[ (hide spoiler)]

I've read quite a few of Heyer's novels and this one struck me as particularly interesting. Heyer is a legend among romance readers--her characters have depth, the events make sense, and while these are books with more talk than action, that talk is lively and always well written.

Heyer's novels fall into a few categories: silly, young heroine marries worldly hero and the two agree to a "French" marriage, only to discover they are in love; older, independent, sophisticated woman finally meets a man that's up to scratch and is persuaded to marry; independent, free-spirited mature lady (i.e., in her twenties) wreaks havoc among society before finally being convinced to settle down; older woman resists a convenient marriage to an even older eligible bachelor, only to find that said bachelor is in fact in love with her.

A Civil Contract isn't quite like any of those. Adam returns from Salamanca only to discover that his newly inherited estates are heavily mortgaged. His only choice is to sell the family seat or to marry a wealthy heiress. He gives in and weds plain (but loaded) Jenny Chawleigh, but sacrifices his own happiness in the bargain--settling for money means he can never marry Julia, the beautiful young woman he's been in love with for a few years. Practical Jenny decides at the outset that she's determined to make him comfortable, and so she sets up his house, makes sure his favorite macaroons are always around, has a son, and generally turns a blind eye to the fact that her husband practically drools every time Julia walks into the room.

The usual antics ensue in which patient, devoted Jenny martyrs herself on the altar of domesticity and good housekeeping, while Julia turns out to be a selfish flirt. The novel is odd however: Jenny has a son. This is the only Heyer novel (to my knowledge) in which the heroine has a child. Given the awkwardness of many of the scenes between Jenny and her husband, the romantic fantasy is radically disrupted by the idea that (within the framework of the romance formula) these two practically perfect strangers are "breeding" (as Jenny puts it). Heyer even incorporates this break into the story itself: Julia, upon learning of Jenny's pregnancy, can only utter "Only to be expected. How--how stupid of me!" Julia could well be echoing the reader's own thoughts on this topic. The pregnancy, instead of drawing the couple closer together, has only heightened their conflicts and brought to the surface both Adam's emotional infidelity and his lack of respect for the excellent qualities in his wife. It is, in fact, only to be expected that even a marriage of convenience would result in children, and yet this is the only Heyer novel in which this occurs. Such a plot structure hardly bodes well for a satisfactory "happy ending."

To Heyer's credit, she doesn't give in, either. It would be so easy to make Adam suddenly do a 180, but this is not a novel that can end happily--Adam is selfish and thoughtless. Jenny, despite her refreshingly prosaic nature, has determined to devote her entire life to making Adam comfortable and happy. The novel ends with Adam admitting that he loves his wife and that he couldn't do without her. Julia becomes "only a boy's impractical dream," but practical Jenny must admit to herself that Adam still loves his dream more than he loves his reality. Jenny argues to herself "they would have many years of quiet content: never reaching the heights, but living together in comfort and deepening friendship . . . I daresay I'm better off as things are." Once again, the romance reader cannot help but agree with such an assessment, and yet admitting Jenny is right is paramount to admitting the fallacy of romance fiction, in which "heights" and "deepening friendship" go hand-in-hand, just like the simultaneous orgasm. Heyer has written a wonderful anti-romance romance, and yet it seems very fitting to me that this should be her only one. (less)

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Jun 02, 2007 Res rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance

The one where financial ruin forces Lord Lynton to marry rich merchant's daughter Jenny instead of his true love Julia.

This is the first time I've read a Heyer book -- or for that matter any Regency -- that was about marriage rather than about courtship. I liked it very much.

Adam is both warm and good, but immature -- another thing that I haven't seen in other Heyer books -- and so he has a lot of changes to go through over the course of the book. It was a pleasure to see him find a good balanc...more

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Jan 27, 2009 Alaine rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: classic, all-time-favourites

This is the first time that I've read a Georgette Heyer novel and I loved it. It was like stepping back in time to live with real people. The way Heyer supplied so many small details that give you such a complete picture of what life must have been like in the Regency period in England.
The romantic plot centres on a Viscount who reluctantly enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy commoner's daughter due to his father's death and substantial family debt he has inherited.
For much of t...more

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Jul 31, 2008 CLM rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to CLM by: SLM

Shelves: regency

This is a book that is hard to love as an impressionable adolescent but is highly valued by more mature fans of GH and gains appeal with every reread. Yet it has a tinge of melancholy throughout due to the fact that Adam sacrifices himself for his family/estate by marrying Jenny for her money, and he (at least initially) believes she is marrying him for his title, whereas in fact, although she is in some way willing to please her father (who wants her to marry into the aristocracy) she secretly...more

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Feb 23, 2013 Emi Nogueira del burgo rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: de_época

Lo de esta mujer es impresionante. Nada más empezar a leer ya estoy super-enganchada y tengo ganas de seguir leyendo para saber qué pasa ^____^

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Sep 27, 2010 Teresa rated it 4 of 5 stars

Most historical romances end in a wedding or a proposal of marriage, but Georgette Heyer� s A Civil Contract begins with the proposal. Adam Deveril has recently inherited his family� s estate, but Adam� s father, Lord Lynton, had frittered away the fortune required to maintain the estate, and Adam faces the difficult possibility of having to sell not just the family� s London house but also his beloved country estate, Fontley. So the proposal that opens the novel is for Adam to enter into a marr...more

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Jan 11, 2009 Delaina rated it 5 of 5 stars

This is Heyer's more realistic take on the arranged marriage, contrasted to the frothier "The Convenient Marriage."
Jenny and Adam are not only virtual strangers when they marry, but also come from different classes. If you're an Austen fan, imagine if Harriet Smith is the only child of a billionaire London merchant, who marries an impoverished and titled Mr. Knightly. Adding to the drama is Adam's unrequited love for Jenny's beautiful friend, whom he couldn't marry since her family (who comes f...more

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Apr 10, 2013 Debbie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, romance

"A Civil Contract" is a Regency romance. It's not highly humorous like Heyer's usual writing. If you believe that a true, lasting love can occur between two people who have decided to honor and behave in a caring way toward each other, then you'll probably enjoy it.

The characters were all nice people who were trying very hard to make things work out so everyone ended up happy. But the characters were also realistic, so they're not always successful. For example, Jenny's father kept trying to giv...more

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Mar 26, 2013 Al rated it 3 of 5 stars

Three and a half stars. Adam Deveril, learning of his father's death in a hunting accident at the same time that he learns that his father has squandered the family fortune, leaves his regiment fighting Napoleon to return to England in an attempt to save his family estate. In doing so, Adam, the new Lord Lynton, agonizingly gives up the girl he had expected to marry in order to marry a wealthy, but plain, commoner whose father aggressively seeks to have her become titled in exchange for substan...more

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Mar 24, 2013 Jane Stewart rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: relationships-fiction, regency

Settling for someone you don’t love, and then finding value, and it’s good. And your life is better.

Readers in the mood for “true love” with passion and seduction, will not want this. Some find it sad. Although I wasn’t sad. I felt calm and pleased at the end.

THE STORY:
Adam’s father dies leaving huge debts. Adam needs to sell the family’s London house and possibly the ancestral home. A friend arranges a meeting between Adam and Jonathan a wealthy business man. Jonathan wants a title for his daug...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Mary Ronan Drew rated it 5 of 5 stars

I have a friend who, when darkness comes and pain is all around, resorts to re-reading her collection of Georgette Heyer novels. I did not really understand what she saw in these, the best of the Regency romances (unless you count Jane Austen's novels, which of course were also Regency romances) until a couple of years ago when I read some of the best-known of them, The Corinthian, The Nonesuch, and Charity Girl. These books sparkle. Forget Harlequin. These are first-rate novels.

So when someone...more I have a friend who, when darkness comes and pain is all around, resorts to re-reading her collection of Georgette Heyer novels. I did not really understand what she saw in these, the best of the Regency romances (unless you count Jane Austen's novels, which of course were also Regency romances) until a couple of years ago when I read some of the best-known of them, The Corinthian, The Nonesuch, and Charity Girl. These books sparkle. Forget Harlequin. These are first-rate novels.

So when someone in my online Trollope group recommended the Georgette Heyer (pronounced "hair" rather than "higher" for reasons you can read about in Wikipedia) novel, A Civil Contract as a study in class differences and class signs, I decided it couldn't hurt to try it. I'm very glad I did.

The story has a somewhat preposterous foundation. Lord Lynton has died and his son, Captain Deveril, as he has been, becomes the new lord and returns home to his family's estate. He finds it in dilapidated condition and discovers he has inherited his father's debts. Once he has paid off the bills there is nothing to live on or to use to bring the farms of the estate into profitable condition. What is he to do?

His attorney and financial advisor tells him to marry money. Lord Lynton is madly in love with Julia Oversly and won't even consider it. But he realizes he cannot marry Julia, whose father is not wealthy and has little money to give her as a dowry. Julia's father tells him to marry money, and sends to him a very wealthy lower class businessman who proposes that Lynton marry his daughter who is short, plump, and homely. Backed into a financial corner, Lord Lynton marries Jenny Chawleigh.

The rest of the story is about how Lynton deals with a vulgar father-in-law with ostentatious taste who is always giving him elaborate gifts he doesn't want and who eventually tries to tell him how to run his life. Jenny has to deal with a husband who is clearly still in love with another woman. An assortment of delightful characters arrive onstage as the new Lady Lynton is presented at court and Lynton's sister makes her debut and receives a proposal from an older man whom his mother thinks is the perfect match.

Heyer uses the British army, the Napoleonic wars, and Waterloo to move the plot along and provide a delightful climax to Lynton's story.

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Mar 18, 2011 Kathy Davie rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: history, romance

A VERY untypical Heyer romance. More of an unromance that turns back on itself at the end. Adam Deveril has just succeeded to his title only to find that that’s about all he’ll be able to retain. His father had intended to restore the family fortunes but seemed to go completely the wrong way about it. Now, everything must be sold including the family seat and he must break it off with his love, Julia, as it would be wrong to hold her to their understanding when he has nothing but himself to offe...more

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Jun 05, 2010 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical, romance

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Oct 06, 2009 Nancy rated it 4 of 5 stars

Aww, Georgette Heyer. How come I never review her books? I became a huge Heyer fan in my romantic teens, and I have to say, her books never pall; if anything I enjoy them even more now that I am wallowing in my middle years. I remember being disappointed when I read this book first: it's about Adam, whose profligate father dies, leaving him penniless and unable to marry the beautiful and romantic Julia. Julia's father, sympathetic to Adam's dire financial straits, puts him in the way of marrying...more

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Jul 24, 2011 Tishke rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: georgian-or-regency-era

It is very hard to rate this book. The book is extremely well-written; the style of writing and the historical accuracy is superb and deserves a 5 rating. On the other hand, I found this book completely, without any reservation, unromantic. I actually felt very sad for the heroine. She didn't marry Adam for his title; she married him because she knew he would be completely ruined without her dad's proposal. From the very beginning she become a martyr to the cause of making Adam's life comfortabl...more

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Jun 27, 2011 Blake rated it 2 of 5 stars

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It's a Heyer so it's better then average but it's not what I would recommend to the first time Georgette Heyer reader. It has some laughs and tender moments but the Hero and Heroine are so dull it's painful. The secondary characters take over completely otherwise this would just be a sad story about a marriage of convenience where the Hero gives up his youthful passionate love and dutifully learns to appreciate his heiress wife even in spite of the fact that she is a 'Cit' and comes from a less...more

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Oct 06, 2012 Anne Chadwick rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: People who like Georgette Heyer's world but aren't too attached to her category writing.

Recommended to Anne by: My mother, I think

This is my favourite Georgette Heyer novel, which may surprise many of her fans. I really like the way there isn't a mad rush towards a complete happy ending, but rather a relationship that starts off with more than a hint of active revulsion and ends up... Well, you'll have to read it to find out how it ends, of course :)

I find that I do prefer those of her books which start off with a wedding (A Civil Contract, The Convenient Marriage, Friday's Child), or an engagement (Cotillion - to an exten...more

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Jan 27, 2013 Ori rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: romance, reviewed, historical-romance

I haven't done my research but this feels like one of Heyer's more mature contributions to her body of work. There are no wild romps through the English countryside or dramatic revelations of Love All Along. Jenny, the heroine of this story, is distinctly unattractive, especially in comparison to the hero's beautiful first love. She is remarkably clearheaded, though, and one of Heyer's sweetest and most generous characters. Adam, the hero, responds admirably to his various trials and duties, but...more

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Mar 10, 2012 Jacey rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, romance

I'm revisiting Georgette Heyer, not having read any since my teens. This was chosen at random (and a bit hurriedly) on a WH Smith buy-one-get-second-at-half-price offer.

Captain Adam Deverill, newly Viscount Lynton, returns from the army to find his father has left him nothing but a title and debts. If he's not to lose the family house he needs to marry an heiress quickly and Jenny Chawleigh is brought to his attention. Her father's rich but of common birth and vulgar as well, yet he's set his s...more

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Jun 27, 2012 Angela rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was really good! The thing about Georgette Heyer books, I think, is there's very little action going on. The stories are almost entirely conversation driven, and so very English (wordy), but brilliantly written. It takes some determination to get involved in the book, but once you get to know the characters, you care about them & their circumstances enough to stick it out. I don't relish a heroine who is decidedly unattractive & plain, but I loved Jenny anyway. She's so good & k...more

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Feb 20, 2010 Ilze rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: georgette-heyer

Heyer's other masterpiece (I've already called An Infamous Army Heyer's masterpiece, but I hadn't re-read this one in several decades when I said that). Amazingly good characters, lots of interior dialogue and character development, lots of humour (and the Dowager character totally reminded me of my mother). Probably her most "realistic" book in that many of the scenes are not just from an imaginary Regency England fairyland.

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Feb 10, 2009 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: historical-fiction, romance

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Aug 17, 2009 Kristy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I loved this book. So enjoyable, but definitely with a hint of guilty pleasure. I noticed that the copyright on the version I was read is 1961 and immediately thought of this book as the anti-Feminine Mystique. If only you are a good enough housekeeper, eventually your husband will totally love you! But at the same time this book has a conception of marriage as a shared life project that I find very appealing. I sometimes find Heyer's heroines to be unconventional in a very unconvincing way (I a...more

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Aug 05, 2008 Amanda rated it 4 of 5 stars

I liked this book because it was filled with such believable characters. I liked the unlikely heroine Jenny. She is awkwardly dressed, stout and not beautiful. But she is very practical, caring, devoted, a great housekeeper and unpretentious. Her husband marries her solely to save his financial future from ruin but finds her to be wonderful and soon loves her. I just love a good ended story like this. Thanks Laura!

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Jan 14, 2013 Mara added it · review of another edition

Shelves: historical, romance

This is a sad, sad little story that reminds me terribly of my mother's books where women were taught to endure and that love, as in being in love, was at best fickle. But then my mom's books were written more or less in the same 'era' :)

In a way it's a romance of time past, educational and passionless. I don't know this author so I can't really say how many of her books are in this 'field'. It's beautifully written, but it depressed me terribly.

If I have to be honest this kind of romance is pro...more

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