Sarah's Secret

Pennington #17

by Catherine George

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Genres: Harlequin

187 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2002

About the author

Deirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.

At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!

Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.

But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.

These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.

Reviews

[Naksed · Rating 2 out of 5]

Sarah's secret is that her daughter is her sister.



Jake's secret is that he has an identical twin.



You'd think this soap opera would make for a riveting read but it was just boring. 😕

Does feature CG's charming English village including that lovely pub by a water stream that her characters are forever dining al fresco in. 😝

I will remember this one for the scene where hero shares a couple of asparagus and sausage appetizers with heroine and gets turned on by all that intimate plate sharing. 😁😁😁

[Debbie DiFiore · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wow that was underwhelming

An older book and it was very slow and boring. Make was a nice hero and the heroine was sweet but it was just not there for some reason. Key in the angst for mistaken identity and it still didn't make it any better. I used to love these when I was as young. Times definitely change and this book was very dated. And slow... Did I mention that?

[Tia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an old review for me. I read this book a year or so ago and for some reason I never marked it off on my goodreads. This is about a woman meeting a man accidentally and them eventually falling in love but the woman is afraid of actually being with him because she has a daughter, whom is not her biological daughter. The woman is actually a virgin and if it gets out and she makes love, she could potentially lose her daughter.

It was a decent read but I didn't find anything that really pulled me into the story in all honesty. I was hoping for more. If we are talking about how it's written, well it wasn't the best I've read but it certainly wasn't the worse. I found the plot kind of stupid to be honest, like I understand that the story was a HUGE cover up but in todays society, that actually doesn't mean much.

[Calysta · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't like when the author keeps the Deep Dark Secret (that the pov character would absolutely ponder at some point in the story) a secret from the reader until the character reveals the info to another character. That extra layer of obscurity requires writing around the issue in ways that almost never are good for a story. Anyway, the secret was exactly what I thought it would be, and not particularly interesting. I do appreciate that this guy was genuinely a good-hearted person and not full of hideous misogynistic ideas about women. The woman was fine, the kid sounded the right age.

[iamGamz · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book title is somewhat deceiving. Sarah did have a secret but it wasn't a very good one. I thought this would be better. My expectations were higher. It was long and mildly interesting. Not a book I would read again.

P.S. I read the English version, but couldn't find it on Goodreads.

[More Books Than Time · Rating 3 out of 5]

Silly premise but more readable than many romance novels with more character building. It felt as though the author completed writing about 50 pages before the ending so she had to stuff in a couple ridiculous crises.

[Sarah Joyner · Rating 1 out of 5]

Boring

I generally like Catherine George but this was way
to sweet, and weird. Her kid was really her sister. It was to boring I struggle to get through it. Definitely deleting this book from my library.

[Ευαγγελία Πρατσόλη · Rating 3 out of 5]

3,5/5,0*

[Karen Gregory · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read the English version, just couldn't find it on here.

[FOTINI · Rating 3 out of 5]

too flat...