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Arrogant Interloper
Jane Calvert had always been sensibleShe held a responsible job in London and was engaged to solid Adrian. Only one thing was missing--love.So she called off the wedding, gave notice at work and faced the future--without a fiance and without a job. Even her parents' cottage, which she thought of using while they were on holiday, was unavailable.Pond House was being repaired by the man who'd taken over the old Calvert estate--a nouveau riche upstart by the name of Max Brigstock. Jane found him intriguing, in fact, something about him seemed rather familiar.. . .
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1990
About the author
Catherine George
455 books73 followersDeirdre 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.
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.
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February 25, 2018
Heroine was rude, entitled, and selfish. She was really hung up on class, hanging on to her status as the granddaughter of the village's former squire and disparaging the self-made hero as an upstart. He was better but also had a chip on his shoulder about being from the wrong side of the tracks. A loooooooong, tedious bickerfest. I didn't feel like the heroine got her deserved comeuppance or grew into some humility. I don't mind reading about spoiled, rich girl heroines once in a while but it won't work for me unless the character develops. I don't need for her to have her spirit crushed but it would be nice if I felt that she realized what an utter donkey's butt she has been and made some efforts to make amends and improve herself. Didn't happen here. I expect her to throw her superior blue blood at the hero's head on a weekly basis for the rest of their lives.
February 14, 2016
I feel bad giving this book a two star rating. It is not that the book is horribly written. In fact it's the opposite. It's just that Harlequin romances are pretty much all the same. Man meets woman, they start to fall in love, have a conflict and break up, pine for one another (whether that be a day or two or for months), hook up again and declare undying love for each other and then live happily ever after!! I just found the underlying plot line (as with a lot of Harlequin romances) to be boring. It needed a bit more grit and juice to the story.
May 3, 2016
It's a harlequin ... you know what you are reading it for, and for that it delivers ... decently. Nothing original here, same song, same dance, different names. Another cookie cutter romance sure to mildly satisfy.
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July 2, 2018Jane Calvert had always been sensible
She held a responsible job in London and was engaged to solid Adrian. Only one thing was missing--love.
So she called off the wedding, gave notice at work and faced the future--without a fiance and without a job. Even her parents' cottage, which she thought of using while they were on holiday, was unavailable.
Pond House was being repaired by the man who'd taken over the old Calvert estate--a nouveau riche upstart by the name of Max Brigstock. Jane found him intriguing, in fact, something about him seemed rather familiar.. .
She held a responsible job in London and was engaged to solid Adrian. Only one thing was missing--love.
So she called off the wedding, gave notice at work and faced the future--without a fiance and without a job. Even her parents' cottage, which she thought of using while they were on holiday, was unavailable.
Pond House was being repaired by the man who'd taken over the old Calvert estate--a nouveau riche upstart by the name of Max Brigstock. Jane found him intriguing, in fact, something about him seemed rather familiar.. .
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