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Just Another Miracle!
"Are you out there, Mary Poppins?"
James Carmichael's wryly humorous plea caught Poppy's attention as she scanned the advertisements for a new job. How could she resist applying, particularly when his voice sounded so wonderful over the phone? Though when his eight-year-old twins greeted her arrival with a flour bomb, she very nearly changed her mind. Until she saw a man and two small boys who'd forgotten how to be a family - and Poppy knew she could be just the miracle James needed...
James Carmichael's wryly humorous plea caught Poppy's attention as she scanned the advertisements for a new job. How could she resist applying, particularly when his voice sounded so wonderful over the phone? Though when his eight-year-old twins greeted her arrival with a flour bomb, she very nearly changed her mind. Until she saw a man and two small boys who'd forgotten how to be a family - and Poppy knew she could be just the miracle James needed...
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First published April 1, 1998
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Caroline Anderson
455 books64 followersCaroline Anderson's first romance novel was published in 1991 by Mills & Boon, and she specializes in medical romances. Her most long and popular series is "The Audley Memorial Hospital", where romance is the best medicine of all. In 2002, she published the original Double Destiny Duology, where Fran Williams lives two different lifes and loves. Now, she has created a new successful series, Yoxburgh, a tycoons's series.
Caroline Anderson continues to write her romances from her home in Suffolk, England, UK.
Caroline Anderson continues to write her romances from her home in Suffolk, England, UK.
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September 10, 2023
Having read all of Caroline Anderson's Yoxburgh books, I've started on the more appealing of her back list and have so far read 18. Sad to say, most are not up to the standard of her recent novels. The best I've read are A Man of Honour (1994), Taken for Granted (1995), and The Baby Question (2002). It's to be expected that, with experience, she has honed her prose so that it now feels effortless and has few stylistic cliches. The older books tend to have many of the romance tropes such as one night stands resulting in pregnancy and, inevitably, marriage (cos that's what happens in real life, right?), hs who haven't told the H they've given birth to his child, hs with no family, big misunderstandings, and couples who don't discuss their issues.
I was partly attracted to Just Another Miracle by the cover, as I bottle-fed orphan lambs as a child. Turns out the h's family are farmers. The H, James, is a wealthy businessman whose wife died three years ago, leaving him to care for his 8 year old identical twin sons. He's devoted his life to his business so that he doesn't have time to think about his loss. The boys, craving his attention, get up to attention-seeking mischief and have been expelled from boarding school. The h, Poppy (as in Mary Poppins) accepts the job of nanny and she and James fall in insta-lust.
The book starts out enjoyably enough. Poppy understands what's motivating the boys behaviour and sets out to mend the relationship between them and their father. She makes their house into a home. The boys and James also enjoy visiting her family's farm.
The story veers irredeemably into cliche when, weeks later, James and Poppy succumb to their desire and make love. They don't use condoms, even though he's wanted her from the start. Surely a rich man, who would be vulnerable to paternity suits, wouldn't be so reckless? Of course Poppy falls pregnant with twins. In another trope of older romances, there's a sophisticated colleague of James who is a rival for his affections but he, of course, loves the innocent farm girl. The final scene, where he declares his love and proposes marriage over the PA at the church fete, is completely out of character and too cheesy for words.
I was partly attracted to Just Another Miracle by the cover, as I bottle-fed orphan lambs as a child. Turns out the h's family are farmers. The H, James, is a wealthy businessman whose wife died three years ago, leaving him to care for his 8 year old identical twin sons. He's devoted his life to his business so that he doesn't have time to think about his loss. The boys, craving his attention, get up to attention-seeking mischief and have been expelled from boarding school. The h, Poppy (as in Mary Poppins) accepts the job of nanny and she and James fall in insta-lust.
The book starts out enjoyably enough. Poppy understands what's motivating the boys behaviour and sets out to mend the relationship between them and their father. She makes their house into a home. The boys and James also enjoy visiting her family's farm.
The story veers irredeemably into cliche when, weeks later, James and Poppy succumb to their desire and make love. They don't use condoms, even though he's wanted her from the start. Surely a rich man, who would be vulnerable to paternity suits, wouldn't be so reckless? Of course Poppy falls pregnant with twins. In another trope of older romances, there's a sophisticated colleague of James who is a rival for his affections but he, of course, loves the innocent farm girl. The final scene, where he declares his love and proposes marriage over the PA at the church fete, is completely out of character and too cheesy for words.
March 2, 2019
una rivisitazione in chiave moderna di Mary poppins
October 2, 2025
3.5 I would say. Very sweet read and the heroine was top stuff, but I struggle to see what she found so appealing about this loser workaholic and his two asshole kids.
January 7, 2016
La historia de Poppy & James es increible. Caroline Anderson hacia maravillas con las letras, magnifica escritora
June 1, 2012
2,5 stars.
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