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Never Say Goodbye (The Best of Betty Neels)
by
Betty Neels
Her family had to come first.
To keep her small family together, Isobel Barrington managed to make ends meet--just!--by doing private nursing jobs. Her mother had only a small pension and her younger brother had to be educated somehow. Isobel really shouldn't have had time to fall in love with Dr. Thomas Winters--but she did anyway. Unfortunately, he wasn't likely to be int...more
To keep her small family together, Isobel Barrington managed to make ends meet--just!--by doing private nursing jobs. Her mother had only a small pension and her younger brother had to be educated somehow. Isobel really shouldn't have had time to fall in love with Dr. Thomas Winters--but she did anyway. Unfortunately, he wasn't likely to be int...more
Mass Market Paperback, 219 pages
Published
April 11th 2006
by Harlequin Books
(first published January 1st 1983)
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This wasn't one of my favorite books by this author, even though it is very hard not to like a Betty Neels story. Of course the themes are always the same. We have a young hard working nurse, committed to taking care of her family, always working hard jobs to make ends meet. She is thrust into the household of an attractive doctor, where she rescues his nurse in Communist Poland. OW, is a bit over the top...and we get glimpses into the fact that hero might be getting a bit tired of the antics of...more
Isobel Barrington comes from a small but loving family and works as a private nurse to supplement her mother's pension and help her younger brother through school. She is hired by Dr. Thomas Winters to help bring his old Nanny to England from Poland. Isobel is happy to take the job, the pay is good, Nanny is a delight, and she has a chance to do a little sightseeing. Isobel's content with her lot in life until she realizes that she's fallen in love with Thomas. She feels that she has no chance t...more
I usually like the calmness of Betty Neels' books, and kind of like her formula usually, and this one was pretty much what you'd expect - overworked and uncomplaining heroine, uncommunicative and superior hero, model housewife skills, women working represented as an unfortunate alternative to marriage, horrible 'modern girls', stray animal adopted, long descriptions of fancy meals, etc. This one was a little overpoweringly archaic in its old-fashionedness, though - women aren't even women - they...more
This will be remembered as the "rescuing Nanny from Poland" book--and indeed that is just about the only exciting thing that happens.
The romance is so-so, the 'other woman' is a nasty piece, but doesn't do any real harm. For once, our heroine's mother is not a whiner, even though they have fall on hard financial times.
We even get a nice tour of Stockholm's historic district as a bonus.
Fair to middlin' Neels all around.
The romance is so-so, the 'other woman' is a nasty piece, but doesn't do any real harm. For once, our heroine's mother is not a whiner, even though they have fall on hard financial times.
We even get a nice tour of Stockholm's historic district as a bonus.
Fair to middlin' Neels all around.
Interesting that they go to Poland and Sweden in this one, not just the usual Holland.
Excellent.
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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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