What do you think?
Rate this book
Prudence
Having grown up together, Eldon Viscount Foley, has taken Prudence for granted nearly all his life. He's toiled and played in London, inhabiting the rarefied air of the Upper Ten Thousand while she's remained snug in her brother's rectory in East Coker. For someone as savvy as Eldon, he's flabbergasted to return home to discover his old chum has donned the spinster's cap! Convinced she needs a rejuvenating holiday, he brings Prudence to town for the Season before she molders away her youth. While the king demands his time, parliament demands his attention, and Eldon's mistress demands an explanation, the only thing Eldon enjoys is the slender amount time he gets to steal with Prudence. It's unfortunate and unhealthy that Prudence has elected to spend so much of her free time being courted by a pompous mathematician. Eldon has to wonder...did his good friend need a holiday? Or a husband?
239 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 18, 2017
3 people are currently reading
5 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 of 1 review
April 5, 2018
One star for the engaging writing and one for an h who was a pragmatist and not a doormat.
Ms. Edingfield was smart to start this story where she did or else the years the h spent pining away for her older brother’s bestie would have made for some very unhappy reading. I’m glad she wasn’t a doormat in the present storyline nor was she a martyr or doormat. She was very realistic and tried to make the best of things.
Unfortunately I did not like the H. He was pretty much clueless when it came to women and all the trouble his ex-mistress caused was annoying and distasteful. I don’t like that he took the h for granted for years and only started seeing her as desirable when she mentioned wanting to make a life for herself, one that didn’t include him. While his political work for the common man engendered a bit of admiration, his personal life left much to be desired.
Overall, I should’ve gone with my gut and stopped reading past page two. That’s where the reader discovers that the H has a married woman as his mistress. It’s just a personal preference but I had a hard time getting past that. Of course the H made all of the appropriate noises to make us believe that his transformation is real, but something was still lacking in it for me. Maybe it was because the MCs hardly ever had the hard conversations and maybe it was because the H would go weeks without seeing the h, even though they were residing in the same house at the time. I’m not sure.
I will definitely read more by this author were the works to contain a more likable h and H.
Ms. Edingfield was smart to start this story where she did or else the years the h spent pining away for her older brother’s bestie would have made for some very unhappy reading. I’m glad she wasn’t a doormat in the present storyline nor was she a martyr or doormat. She was very realistic and tried to make the best of things.
Unfortunately I did not like the H. He was pretty much clueless when it came to women and all the trouble his ex-mistress caused was annoying and distasteful. I don’t like that he took the h for granted for years and only started seeing her as desirable when she mentioned wanting to make a life for herself, one that didn’t include him. While his political work for the common man engendered a bit of admiration, his personal life left much to be desired.
Overall, I should’ve gone with my gut and stopped reading past page two. That’s where the reader discovers that the H has a married woman as his mistress. It’s just a personal preference but I had a hard time getting past that. Of course the H made all of the appropriate noises to make us believe that his transformation is real, but something was still lacking in it for me. Maybe it was because the MCs hardly ever had the hard conversations and maybe it was because the H would go weeks without seeing the h, even though they were residing in the same house at the time. I’m not sure.
I will definitely read more by this author were the works to contain a more likable h and H.
Displaying 1 of 1 review