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Endearing Young Charms #4
The Glitter and the Gold
Fanny and her bridegroom had been tricked! Both sets of impoverished parents had decided to recoup their losses by marrying their offspring to that of a rich neighbor. The truth was, both were penniless. Charles wasn't the dark rogue of Fanny's girlish fantasies, but he was chivalrously determined that she should meet someone more appropriate than he. And Fanny wanted Charles to find a woman of means. But as each set out to find a partner for the other, they both began to suspect that true love might have nothing to do with riches.
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First published July 5, 1993
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Marion Chesney
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aka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, M.C. Beaton, Sarah Chester.
Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.
Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.
aka: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, M.C. Beaton, Sarah Chester.
Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.
Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.
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November 20, 2019
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Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Parents on both sides, all impoverished, had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their children to the progeny of a wealthier neighbor. The joke was on them however when it was outed that neither family had a penny to its name.
Charles was not the dark rogue of Fanny's girlish fantasies, but he was chivalrously determined that she should meet someone more appropriate for her than he. And for her part, Fanny was determined that Charles find a woman of greater means who would, perhaps, be the answer to his prayers. Yet as each lover set to find someone for the other, each was left with the nagging notion that true love might have nothing to do with riches.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Endearing Young Charms collection are lighter romances from the countryside with highlights including: a botched marriage, a witty governess, unexpected inheritance, and the courtship of prime Corinthians.
M. C. Beaton presents another historical romance in The Glitter and the Gold, which brings out her master story-teller fashion with humor, wit, and historical accuracy. The premise of the story was based on a comedy of errors, unrecognized romantical feelings, and putting others before yourself. Just how it will conclude can only be determined by reading the entire tale.
The Endearing Young Charms collection are lighter romances from the countryside with highlights including a botched marriage, a witty governess, unexpected inheritance, and the courtship of prime Corinthians.
M. C. Beaton is the pen name of bestselling novelist Marion Chesney. The author has written under various names, most notably as M. C. Beaton for her Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series. Marion has also has written under the names Sarah Chester, Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Marion Gibbons, Jennie Tremaine, and Charlotte Ward. One of her most enjoyable series was entitled 'The Poor Relations'.
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The Glitter and the Gold
(Love, #10)
(Endearing Young Charms, #4)
by Marion Chesney
Print Length: 208 pages
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DESCRIPTION:
Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Parents on both sides, all impoverished, had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their children to the progeny of a wealthier neighbor. The joke was on them however when it was outed that neither family had a penny to its name.
Charles was not the dark rogue of Fanny's girlish fantasies, but he was chivalrously determined that she should meet someone more appropriate for her than he. And for her part, Fanny was determined that Charles find a woman of greater means who would, perhaps, be the answer to his prayers. Yet as each lover set to find someone for the other, each was left with the nagging notion that true love might have nothing to do with riches.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The Endearing Young Charms collection are lighter romances from the countryside with highlights including: a botched marriage, a witty governess, unexpected inheritance, and the courtship of prime Corinthians.
M. C. Beaton presents another historical romance in The Glitter and the Gold, which brings out her master story-teller fashion with humor, wit, and historical accuracy. The premise of the story was based on a comedy of errors, unrecognized romantical feelings, and putting others before yourself. Just how it will conclude can only be determined by reading the entire tale.
The Endearing Young Charms collection are lighter romances from the countryside with highlights including a botched marriage, a witty governess, unexpected inheritance, and the courtship of prime Corinthians.
M. C. Beaton is the pen name of bestselling novelist Marion Chesney. The author has written under various names, most notably as M. C. Beaton for her Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin series. Marion has also has written under the names Sarah Chester, Helen Crampton, Ann Fairfax, Marion Gibbons, Jennie Tremaine, and Charlotte Ward. One of her most enjoyable series was entitled 'The Poor Relations'.
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The Glitter and the Gold
(Love, #10)
(Endearing Young Charms, #4)
by Marion Chesney
Print Length: 208 pages
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December 27, 2024
A Regency romantic comedy that abounds in farce and melodrama
Fanny Page is a naïve 17-year-old born into the gentry, and Sir Charles Deveney is a 29-year-old major who has been knighted for exemplary bravery in his service in the army during the Napoleonic wars. His father is a country squire, and their families live in the same county. Fanny and Charles are tricked into a marriage of convenience by their con-artist parents. Each set of parents is flat broke, and each couple deceives the other into believing they are rich just long enough to sign a marriage contract between their offspring. All four parents assume that, after a convenient escape to parts unknown for a year or so following their children’s expedited marriage, they can then comfortably batten themselves on Fanny and Charles the rest of their lives.
The parents arrange the wedding so that Fanny and Charles do not meet in person until they are standing before the village vicar to speak their marriage vows. Both are utterly shocked on seeing each other, because the paintings the parents have showed them, of a beautiful woman and an extremely handsome man, do not look at all like Fanny or Charles. Certainly these two are quite attractive in their own way, but they are nothing like the diamonds of the first water in those portraits.
Penniless, and with no parents on hand to call to account, the newlyweds decide they will not consummate their marriage so they can get it annulled. They head to London, hoping to stay with Charles's wealthy Aunt Martha temporarily while they decide what to do next. Fanny and Charles honestly explain their situation to Martha, and to their amazement—because she has not had anything to do with Charles’s spendthrift parents for years—she agrees to take them in. She even consents to Charles's scheme for his temporary wife’s happiness. He wants poor Fanny to achieve her heart's desire: a season in London and a chance to marry the man of her dreams. Thus begins their whacky scheme of Charles and Fanny's pretending to be cousins. In addition, both will claim to be wealthy, because riches provide an instant entrée into the highest echelons of tonnish society.
Charles has no thought of pursuing the woman of his dreams, because he has never considered himself filled with romantic notions in the way that novel-reading Fanny is. But when he and Fanny are circulating among high society, and both of them meet the real people behind the gorgeous portraits their parents sent them, suddenly Charles is just as prone as young Fanny to dangerously romantic fantasies of true love.
This novel was written in 1993 and is a combination of two classic romantic-comedy plots, the marriage of convenience and a comedy of errors. While there are some lightly comedic moments in this book which provide a few chuckles, as is often the case with MC in her novels that are billed as comedies, she frequently veers off into melodrama. In this case, the melodrama comes from Fanny’s beau, whom Charles knows from the first is an evil rapist.
As is quite typical with MC, there is a 12-year age difference between Fanny and Charles. Her heroines are almost always between 17 and 19, and her heroes almost always between 29 and 32. Initially, Fanny comes off as naïve to the point that it is irritatingly easy for the villain and his accomplice to dupe her. But she redeems herself by outwitting the accomplice and, in the climax scene with the evil villain, she demonstrates admirable fortitude.
As for Charles, I really liked him. I found him quite adorable. He is kind and even tempered. In appearance, unlike most of MC’s heroes, who are usually tall and heavily muscled, Charles is of average height, with a slight but athletic build. Also unlike many other MC, rakish heroes, he has never been to a prostitute due to an entirely reasonable fear of catching syphilis. And he certainly has not been wealthy enough to have a mistress, so it is possible, though not overtly stated, that like Fanny, he is a virgin. Over the years he has augmented his rather meager pay from the army with small wins from careful gambling. He wins mainly because he sticks to water when everyone else gets drunk while gambling.
Since this book is supposed to be a romance, it got rather tiresome at times that about 75% of the book is comedy of errors, in which Fanny and Charles are spending time courting their two awful, narcissistic, alternate romantic interests. It leaves relatively little time for us to experience the two of them falling in love.
In addition, MC all too often falls into melodrama in her Regency romances, and one of her favorite, soap-operatic, villain tropes, and the most distasteful to me personally, occurs in this book, in which the Snidely Whiplash villain threatens to rape the heroine.
I experienced this novel as an audiobook narrated by British actress, Lindy Nettleton. She does an excellent job acting out all the characters, both male and female, of all ages.
I rate this book as follows:
Heroine: 3 stars
Hero: 5 stars
Subcharacters: 3 stars
Romance Plot: 3 stars
Comedy of Errors Plot: 2 stars
Melodrama: 2 stars
Writing: 3 stars
Audiobook Narration: 4 stars
Overall: 3 stars
Fanny Page is a naïve 17-year-old born into the gentry, and Sir Charles Deveney is a 29-year-old major who has been knighted for exemplary bravery in his service in the army during the Napoleonic wars. His father is a country squire, and their families live in the same county. Fanny and Charles are tricked into a marriage of convenience by their con-artist parents. Each set of parents is flat broke, and each couple deceives the other into believing they are rich just long enough to sign a marriage contract between their offspring. All four parents assume that, after a convenient escape to parts unknown for a year or so following their children’s expedited marriage, they can then comfortably batten themselves on Fanny and Charles the rest of their lives.
The parents arrange the wedding so that Fanny and Charles do not meet in person until they are standing before the village vicar to speak their marriage vows. Both are utterly shocked on seeing each other, because the paintings the parents have showed them, of a beautiful woman and an extremely handsome man, do not look at all like Fanny or Charles. Certainly these two are quite attractive in their own way, but they are nothing like the diamonds of the first water in those portraits.
Penniless, and with no parents on hand to call to account, the newlyweds decide they will not consummate their marriage so they can get it annulled. They head to London, hoping to stay with Charles's wealthy Aunt Martha temporarily while they decide what to do next. Fanny and Charles honestly explain their situation to Martha, and to their amazement—because she has not had anything to do with Charles’s spendthrift parents for years—she agrees to take them in. She even consents to Charles's scheme for his temporary wife’s happiness. He wants poor Fanny to achieve her heart's desire: a season in London and a chance to marry the man of her dreams. Thus begins their whacky scheme of Charles and Fanny's pretending to be cousins. In addition, both will claim to be wealthy, because riches provide an instant entrée into the highest echelons of tonnish society.
Charles has no thought of pursuing the woman of his dreams, because he has never considered himself filled with romantic notions in the way that novel-reading Fanny is. But when he and Fanny are circulating among high society, and both of them meet the real people behind the gorgeous portraits their parents sent them, suddenly Charles is just as prone as young Fanny to dangerously romantic fantasies of true love.
This novel was written in 1993 and is a combination of two classic romantic-comedy plots, the marriage of convenience and a comedy of errors. While there are some lightly comedic moments in this book which provide a few chuckles, as is often the case with MC in her novels that are billed as comedies, she frequently veers off into melodrama. In this case, the melodrama comes from Fanny’s beau, whom Charles knows from the first is an evil rapist.
As is quite typical with MC, there is a 12-year age difference between Fanny and Charles. Her heroines are almost always between 17 and 19, and her heroes almost always between 29 and 32. Initially, Fanny comes off as naïve to the point that it is irritatingly easy for the villain and his accomplice to dupe her. But she redeems herself by outwitting the accomplice and, in the climax scene with the evil villain, she demonstrates admirable fortitude.
As for Charles, I really liked him. I found him quite adorable. He is kind and even tempered. In appearance, unlike most of MC’s heroes, who are usually tall and heavily muscled, Charles is of average height, with a slight but athletic build. Also unlike many other MC, rakish heroes, he has never been to a prostitute due to an entirely reasonable fear of catching syphilis. And he certainly has not been wealthy enough to have a mistress, so it is possible, though not overtly stated, that like Fanny, he is a virgin. Over the years he has augmented his rather meager pay from the army with small wins from careful gambling. He wins mainly because he sticks to water when everyone else gets drunk while gambling.
Since this book is supposed to be a romance, it got rather tiresome at times that about 75% of the book is comedy of errors, in which Fanny and Charles are spending time courting their two awful, narcissistic, alternate romantic interests. It leaves relatively little time for us to experience the two of them falling in love.
In addition, MC all too often falls into melodrama in her Regency romances, and one of her favorite, soap-operatic, villain tropes, and the most distasteful to me personally, occurs in this book, in which the Snidely Whiplash villain threatens to rape the heroine.
I experienced this novel as an audiobook narrated by British actress, Lindy Nettleton. She does an excellent job acting out all the characters, both male and female, of all ages.
I rate this book as follows:
Heroine: 3 stars
Hero: 5 stars
Subcharacters: 3 stars
Romance Plot: 3 stars
Comedy of Errors Plot: 2 stars
Melodrama: 2 stars
Writing: 3 stars
Audiobook Narration: 4 stars
Overall: 3 stars
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January 1, 2012
I didn't really think I was going to like this story too well, but being a Marion Chesney book, I gave it a chance. Reading the first...oh probably half of the book, I was thinking, yep, I was right. Not one for me. But, something happened along the way. I started caring about the characters. What? I couldn't have actually meant that?!? What's to like about two people tricked into marriage, then thinking up a scheme to go to London and pretend to be cousins, rather than a couple. All this subterfuge so each could trick some other rich person into marriage? So, because you're mad that your parents tricked you into marriage, thinking the other was rich, it was okay to turn around and do it to someone else? Ugh! But, they each turn his/her attentions to the most horrible example of humankind one could imagine. Yes, the original couple was looking much better after those two! While a complete farce, especially with the fairy tale ending (Won't give away the spoiler, but I bet you can guess it has something to do with money.), I'm amazed at how delightful I found the story and the main couple. Somewhere along the way, they changed from clueless con-men to a cute, naive couple. Sweet story, especially if you give it a chance. B- rating.
November 20, 2021
THE GLITTER AND THE GOLD by Marion Chesney was a thin 170-page traditional Regency romance novel, published by Fawcett in August 1993. The story concerns two young people whose scheming parents trick them into getting married, due to their mistaken belief that the other party is wealthy. In fact, both the heroine Fanny and the hero Charles are poor. Each had been shown a portrait of another person as their intended spouse, and it was only on their wedding day that they learned the truth. They decide to go to London pretending to be wealthy cousins, in order to enter society and meet an eligible person with money that they can marry instead. But Charles meets and falls in love with the woman whose picture he had earlier thought to be Fanny (before he married her) and Fanny falls in love with the man whose picture she had thought to be Charles. But the prospective mates that they had seen in the portraits turn out to be unpleasant people, and eventually Charles and Fanny realize that the person they loved all the time was each other -- the person they were already married to!
I'd not read a novel by Marion Chesney before, so I don't know if all her books are like this or not, but the plot had a lot of coincidences in it. I'll be interested in reading another Chesney novel in the future, to see how it compares to this one. I could imagine Chesney writing an outline showing where all of the characters' movements would intersect, and then she would simply have her prose follow that predetermined outline. You could say that the characters were like chess pieces, but I don't want to leave the impression that they had no personality. It was a fun, lively read which I enjoyed. I don't know what the title refers to exactly, unless to the pursuit of wealth that runs throughout the story. I rate the book 3.5 (out of 5) stars.
I'd not read a novel by Marion Chesney before, so I don't know if all her books are like this or not, but the plot had a lot of coincidences in it. I'll be interested in reading another Chesney novel in the future, to see how it compares to this one. I could imagine Chesney writing an outline showing where all of the characters' movements would intersect, and then she would simply have her prose follow that predetermined outline. You could say that the characters were like chess pieces, but I don't want to leave the impression that they had no personality. It was a fun, lively read which I enjoyed. I don't know what the title refers to exactly, unless to the pursuit of wealth that runs throughout the story. I rate the book 3.5 (out of 5) stars.
October 13, 2019
Delightfully terrible. This was one of the worst books I’ve read in a very long time. I couldn’t put it down - at first because I couldn’t decide whether it was meant to be tongue-in-cheek and then out of the pure, unadulterated curiosity of whether it could complete a story arc while failing on every category imaginable. It did not disappoint. One star for good grammar and few typos.
October 6, 2024
One of Chesney's weaker efforts; I'd like to call it a comedy of errors, but it is too light on the comedy and waaay too heavy on the errors. It got off to a tremendous start with the brilliant premise of two broke families pawning off their son and daughter to the other, both incorrectly assuming the other family was fabulously rich. After a quick marriage, both families packed up and disappeared to avoid repercussions.
That was, unfortunately, where the clever story-line took a nosedive into an absolutely impossible scenario which required complete gullibility on the part of the reader to believe.
Hard to tell who was the more immature; the selfish and deluded Fanny (who inexplicably wanted to have her debutante experience to woo a potential husband AFTER their marriage), or the rather simple-minded and easily-lead Sir Charles who agreed to the ludicrous scheme that I won't bother to get into.
The usual quagmire of never ending obstinance, jealousy, misunderstandings, selfishness, near-rape experiences from an evil Snideley Whiplash like character, etc.... drags inexorably on until finally the inevitable happy ending puts us out of our misery.
That was, unfortunately, where the clever story-line took a nosedive into an absolutely impossible scenario which required complete gullibility on the part of the reader to believe.
Hard to tell who was the more immature; the selfish and deluded Fanny (who inexplicably wanted to have her debutante experience to woo a potential husband AFTER their marriage), or the rather simple-minded and easily-lead Sir Charles who agreed to the ludicrous scheme that I won't bother to get into.
The usual quagmire of never ending obstinance, jealousy, misunderstandings, selfishness, near-rape experiences from an evil Snideley Whiplash like character, etc.... drags inexorably on until finally the inevitable happy ending puts us out of our misery.
July 20, 2020
This is a lovely romance, but more, it is a tale that centres around the importance of money. If you are rich, all sins are forgiven, if you are poor, you are damned and excluded from society. Fanny and Charles are tricked into marriage by their parents. Both parties think the other is wealthy, and want that wealth for themselves through their children's marriage. When Charles and Fanny learn of the treachery, they decide to pretend to be cousins and have some fun, not realising that they are made for each other. The twists and turns are interesting, but all ends with the discovery of wealth that Charles actually has due to his superb bravery in Spain.
July 25, 2022
Typical Chesney. Meaning enjoyable for what it is.
I still find Chesney’s villains and foils so much more interesting to read about than the actual heroes/heroines.
I still find Chesney’s villains and foils so much more interesting to read about than the actual heroes/heroines.
June 18, 2023
Fanny Page and Charle Deveny are tricked into marriage by both sets of parents. Lord Bohan is the smarmy villain who abducts. 40ish Miss Grimes chaperones and Captain Tommy sets his cap for her
July 2, 2024
This was sweet and fun
September 16, 2024
Very enjoyable story.
September 10, 2025
Such a sorry little book. M C Beaton at her worst.
February 14, 2026
This was good. I liked that the heroine wasn't too dumb and naive even though she was very young and innocent.
August 14, 2015
Fanny Page and Sir Charles Deveney are bamboozled into marriage by their scheming parents, each side believing they are getting one over on the other side. Both families are up the River Tick but manage to convince each other that they have money. Then both sets of parents rent out their homes and head for parts unknown.
That leaves Fanny and Charles married, penniless, with nowhere to rest their heads. They land on the doorstep of Charles's Aunt Martha who, after hearing their story, lets them stay with her.
A plan is hatched whereby both Fanny and Charles pretend to be cousins, pretend to be rich, and begin looking for better prospects. If they can find a better deal, they will have their unconsummated marriage annulled.
I never seem to tire of reading Ms. Chesney's books. Each one is a gift waiting to be opened.
That leaves Fanny and Charles married, penniless, with nowhere to rest their heads. They land on the doorstep of Charles's Aunt Martha who, after hearing their story, lets them stay with her.
A plan is hatched whereby both Fanny and Charles pretend to be cousins, pretend to be rich, and begin looking for better prospects. If they can find a better deal, they will have their unconsummated marriage annulled.
I never seem to tire of reading Ms. Chesney's books. Each one is a gift waiting to be opened.
April 22, 2016
M. C. Beaton of the Agatha Raisin and Hamish McBeth series also writes romance novels as Marion Chesney. Romance novels aren't usually my preferred genre but I gave it a try once, and went back for more, in part because M. C. Beaton is such a great writer. These are fun and pleasant romances which provide a change of pace. This one definitely falls in the "Oh, what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive" saga but all is well that ends well and that's how I like it! Sensitivity alert--there was a love scene whose details surprised me in otherwise tame writing and which I skipped. Reader Lindy Nettleton does a great job bringing all the characters to life.
May 23, 2015
Particularly Delightful
This is a comedy of errors, starting with the marriage of Sir Charles to Fanny Price sight unseen. This event was manipulated by both sets of parents who were in financial trouble and thought the other family wealthy. The now impoverished couple are furious with the trick and decide to keep their marriage a secret when they go to London. This is only the beginning of numerous twists and turns until I couldn't see how there could be a HEA. Well, Beaton really pulls this ending out of a hat. It's totally great. One my favorite Beaton romances.
This is a comedy of errors, starting with the marriage of Sir Charles to Fanny Price sight unseen. This event was manipulated by both sets of parents who were in financial trouble and thought the other family wealthy. The now impoverished couple are furious with the trick and decide to keep their marriage a secret when they go to London. This is only the beginning of numerous twists and turns until I couldn't see how there could be a HEA. Well, Beaton really pulls this ending out of a hat. It's totally great. One my favorite Beaton romances.
November 2, 2019
As a matter of fact, this book was really nice, protagonists, both were tricked to marriage by their imrovished, indebted parents whom each side thought the other Were filthy rich. Hero planned to have a season to let his wife enjoy for once and have her pick and he decided to do the same as both agreed they are not suitable for each other.
Things develop, with the help of Hero's trusted freind and spinster aunt.
Nice book though sometimes I hated how heroine was selfish and disrespectfully immature. But nice book ,light book to read.
Things develop, with the help of Hero's trusted freind and spinster aunt.
Nice book though sometimes I hated how heroine was selfish and disrespectfully immature. But nice book ,light book to read.
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September 26, 2017Take two mild-mannered, slightly repressed people, remove them from their normal, very structured environment, have them meet at the alter for the first time as they marry at the behest of their outré parents and what do you get? People behaving badly. While I had some sympathy for the ‘characters gone wild’ in this book they do get tedious. Of course it’s the unbelievable, forced, ending that seals the deal. It’s readable but only just.
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