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The Constant Companion
"I am Miss Lamberton. Miss Constance Lamberton. I hoped that you would employ me as your companion."
And so the quiet Constance Lamberton, an orphan, came to the household of the haughty and beautiful Lady Amelia Godolphin. She would serve as milady's chaperone at the Season's many festivities, an unwitting accomplice in Lady Amelia's scheme to trap the very eligible Lord Philip Cautry into marriage.
But it was not Lady Amelia who won Lord Philip's heart. It was the pale, golden-eyed Constance. And very soon, Constance became Lady Philip Cautry. It was not a marriage made in heaven. But sorely, in time....
And then Constance disappeared. Lord Philip didn't know why or how. Nor did he care. All that mattered to him now was the safe return of his beloved Constance....
And so the quiet Constance Lamberton, an orphan, came to the household of the haughty and beautiful Lady Amelia Godolphin. She would serve as milady's chaperone at the Season's many festivities, an unwitting accomplice in Lady Amelia's scheme to trap the very eligible Lord Philip Cautry into marriage.
But it was not Lady Amelia who won Lord Philip's heart. It was the pale, golden-eyed Constance. And very soon, Constance became Lady Philip Cautry. It was not a marriage made in heaven. But sorely, in time....
And then Constance disappeared. Lord Philip didn't know why or how. Nor did he care. All that mattered to him now was the safe return of his beloved Constance....
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 12, 1980
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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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July 6, 2017
This book and the Marquis Takes a Bride are a bit like mirror images of each other, in that one features an annoying hero, and the other an annoying heroine. As it is a romance, an annoying heroine is slightly more palatable than an annoying hero, and so this book came off the worse.
Lady Amelia Godolphin is flamboyant, sexually deviant, and beautiful. She's also desirous of hooking Lord Philip Cautry, an eligible bachelor who's also -- in the words of the time -- a "high stickler" and very much "high in the instep." To do so, she was counseled by her only friend, Mary Besant, with whom she has a love-hate relationship, to find an extremely respectable companion to elevate her own dubious standing. "Ah!" thinks Lady Amelia, the person to do that would be an old relative, Miss Lamberton, who was the prosiest, most religious person there ever was, and sends off a letter.
Who should receive that letter but Constance Lamberton, who had been in the care of her now deceased aunt, and who is now destitute, with the house and land going to the next of kin? Making a bid for her own independence, Constance uses what little there is of her money and travels to London to see Lady Amelia, who says airily, "Oh this won't do at all. Leave at once," and flounces off. Mary Besant sees a way to make trouble, and persuades Lady Amelia to keep Constance as a companion, since that young thing's father was Lord Philip's tutor in many a manly art. Constance also is to have Lady Amelia's old clothes, since Mary Besant persuades that lady that spending extra money was a waste.
It would be too easy for this early Chesney to have Lord Philip tumble head over heels for Constance, and as we see, Lord Philip doesn't spare her a glance and has conceived of a notion to see if he can bed Lady Amelia out of marriage, since her actions are highly suggestive and not at all respectable. He is possessed of this lusty desire even after he has offered to marry Constance -- purely out of pity. Constance must accept, because her lot in life is pretty cruel -- Lady Amelia is the British version of the slave-owner and even takes a whip to Constance once when she was feeling annoyed.
Does Lord Philip fall for Constance after they are married, and there's a mysterious attempt on her life at the wedding? No, because he's a pompous windbag and thinks extremely highly of himself for doing this grand deed. He thinks so highly of himself that there were times I imagined him as a conquering hero statue, complete with one hand on his hip and one foot atop a rock, staring off into the distance, with a cape caught in mid-flutter behind him. In short, he was one insufferable, unlikable hero.
As for the plot behind Constance's murder attempt, she happened to overhear a French conversation between a French comte and an English gentleman in which she picked up phrases like "trahison" and "L'Empereur" and other suspicious terms that really should have alerted her at once, since those words sound almost exactly the same in English. But she confides in several other random people and word got back to the English gentleman who eventually kidnapped her and hid her in a country cottage.
Ah, Peter Potter, the elegant, absent-minded friend of Lord Philip! Why were you not the hero of the day? Dressed impeccably except for small lapses, he was also tall, elegant, and attractive, and what's more, impressed with Constance's character and looks, not to mention the fact that he was the one to connect the dots behind her wedding murder attempt and her later disappearance.
Rated down for the crappy hero. For an almost similar plot and a better story written eight years later, refer to Pretty Polly.
Lady Amelia Godolphin is flamboyant, sexually deviant, and beautiful. She's also desirous of hooking Lord Philip Cautry, an eligible bachelor who's also -- in the words of the time -- a "high stickler" and very much "high in the instep." To do so, she was counseled by her only friend, Mary Besant, with whom she has a love-hate relationship, to find an extremely respectable companion to elevate her own dubious standing. "Ah!" thinks Lady Amelia, the person to do that would be an old relative, Miss Lamberton, who was the prosiest, most religious person there ever was, and sends off a letter.
Who should receive that letter but Constance Lamberton, who had been in the care of her now deceased aunt, and who is now destitute, with the house and land going to the next of kin? Making a bid for her own independence, Constance uses what little there is of her money and travels to London to see Lady Amelia, who says airily, "Oh this won't do at all. Leave at once," and flounces off. Mary Besant sees a way to make trouble, and persuades Lady Amelia to keep Constance as a companion, since that young thing's father was Lord Philip's tutor in many a manly art. Constance also is to have Lady Amelia's old clothes, since Mary Besant persuades that lady that spending extra money was a waste.
It would be too easy for this early Chesney to have Lord Philip tumble head over heels for Constance, and as we see, Lord Philip doesn't spare her a glance and has conceived of a notion to see if he can bed Lady Amelia out of marriage, since her actions are highly suggestive and not at all respectable. He is possessed of this lusty desire even after he has offered to marry Constance -- purely out of pity. Constance must accept, because her lot in life is pretty cruel -- Lady Amelia is the British version of the slave-owner and even takes a whip to Constance once when she was feeling annoyed.
Does Lord Philip fall for Constance after they are married, and there's a mysterious attempt on her life at the wedding? No, because he's a pompous windbag and thinks extremely highly of himself for doing this grand deed. He thinks so highly of himself that there were times I imagined him as a conquering hero statue, complete with one hand on his hip and one foot atop a rock, staring off into the distance, with a cape caught in mid-flutter behind him. In short, he was one insufferable, unlikable hero.
As for the plot behind Constance's murder attempt, she happened to overhear a French conversation between a French comte and an English gentleman in which she picked up phrases like "trahison" and "L'Empereur" and other suspicious terms that really should have alerted her at once, since those words sound almost exactly the same in English. But she confides in several other random people and word got back to the English gentleman who eventually kidnapped her and hid her in a country cottage.
Ah, Peter Potter, the elegant, absent-minded friend of Lord Philip! Why were you not the hero of the day? Dressed impeccably except for small lapses, he was also tall, elegant, and attractive, and what's more, impressed with Constance's character and looks, not to mention the fact that he was the one to connect the dots behind her wedding murder attempt and her later disappearance.
Rated down for the crappy hero. For an almost similar plot and a better story written eight years later, refer to Pretty Polly.
July 25, 2015
I loved the heroine, absolutely loved her. Even though she was a bit of a doormat and could have done with a bit more lip, especially towards the OW, her cousin, I still loved her.
Okay fine, I sometimes did get annoyed by her naïveté. But she was awesome.
The hero was the problem for me. He was ready to believe anything bad about the heroine the first chance he got. And who the hell does nothing at all about his wife's disappearance for an entire month? Ugh. He actually believed that she robbed him and left, and had not his friend, the slightly (okay, very) eccentric Harry talked him into his senses, he would have done nothing at all. Quite a dumb hero, if you ask me.
The odd friend Harry, on the other hand, stole my heart right from the first meeting. Excellent sequel-bait. I would love to see him in his own book! He was such a delight to read, and the way Chesney described him made it even more enjoyable.
The book only gets a lower rating because the hero wasn't as much in love with the heroine as he claimed to be, and thought himself superior to the heroine, and was - like I said, a dumb hero. Not dumb as in asshole stupid dumb, actual dumb, like not intelligent, IQ-of-a-fly dumb.
Actually, comparing him to a fly is an insult to the fly.
Okay fine, I sometimes did get annoyed by her naïveté. But she was awesome.
The hero was the problem for me. He was ready to believe anything bad about the heroine the first chance he got. And who the hell does nothing at all about his wife's disappearance for an entire month? Ugh. He actually believed that she robbed him and left, and had not his friend, the slightly (okay, very) eccentric Harry talked him into his senses, he would have done nothing at all. Quite a dumb hero, if you ask me.
The odd friend Harry, on the other hand, stole my heart right from the first meeting. Excellent sequel-bait. I would love to see him in his own book! He was such a delight to read, and the way Chesney described him made it even more enjoyable.
The book only gets a lower rating because the hero wasn't as much in love with the heroine as he claimed to be, and thought himself superior to the heroine, and was - like I said, a dumb hero. Not dumb as in asshole stupid dumb, actual dumb, like not intelligent, IQ-of-a-fly dumb.
Actually, comparing him to a fly is an insult to the fly.
August 8, 2017
I see that most readers (at least reviewers) agree on two issues: they love Peter (a supporting character) and they don't like Philip (a main hero). And because of it (especially because of the second reason) they rated the book low.
I liked Peter also but I am not against the idea of a hero who wasn't in love with heroine from the first sight and who had many flaws. So, I think Philip was quite interesting as a character (one could call him a proud, haughty aristocrat).
The whole novel was pleasant, a little funny, with entertaining characters and with a small mystery/adventure. I think it could have been better used if the book had been longer. There wasn't a space for a reader to contemplate and for the story to evolve more realistic. But I am starting to realize that it was a style of Marion Chesney, these short, enjoyable novels.
I can't forgive only one thing. I can't accept and comprehend it.
I liked Peter also but I am not against the idea of a hero who wasn't in love with heroine from the first sight and who had many flaws. So, I think Philip was quite interesting as a character (one could call him a proud, haughty aristocrat).
The whole novel was pleasant, a little funny, with entertaining characters and with a small mystery/adventure. I think it could have been better used if the book had been longer. There wasn't a space for a reader to contemplate and for the story to evolve more realistic. But I am starting to realize that it was a style of Marion Chesney, these short, enjoyable novels.
I can't forgive only one thing. I can't accept and comprehend it.
November 2, 2009
I'm usually a fan of Marion Chesney books but this one left me a little disappointed. I read her books only for light reading as they are usually mostly fluff. But they're usually good fluff. This one...eh. I'm not crazy about the whole "fall in love at first sight" style when it's also combined with misunderstandings galore between the two. It makes you want to just knock their heads together because of their stupidity. There was some drama in this story as young Constance overhears a conversation in French between two Bonapartists (is that the correct term?). One she recognized but the other she didn't plus she didn't understand French. She did pick up on a few suspicious sounding words and mentioned them to her husband. He of course immediately brought this information to certain government officials. In the meantime, the two culprits discover the identity of the person that overheard their conversation and set out to silence her. Apparently it was supposed to be a mystery until the "revelation" of the second person but I knew all along who it was so it was no surprise. Constance ends up disappearing - is she dead? Everything gets resolved rather too quickly for my taste. I'll give Marion Chesney another chance and hopefully that one won't fall flat too. I'm wondering if my tastes are changing? We'll have to see.
August 11, 2023
I forgot I read this one but I went back and looked at it again recently. It’s a very typical Chesney story, but the main characters are especially appealing. The H is an absolute dolt, but he’s not going anywhere else – he’s madly in love/in lust with her.
December 14, 2017
I listen to these on audiobook because I need to listen to something innocuous at night and there is very little that actually fulfills that requirement. This has to be the worst story by Chesney I have listened to. The Blackstone reader is fantastic as always but the characters are even more awful than they normally are. I mean, at this point I am believing that the author is trying to teach her readers that all aristocrats in this era are awful and that maybe you are kind of awful for wanting these people to be your protagonists. Especially these protagonists, who don't have two good traits (attractiveness is not a trait) to rub together between them. Maybe I'm spoiled for choice in this day and age (considering when it was written), but you should be too, and in this day and age, this is not a good choice.
November 1, 2022
The book was nice till they got married and book turned boring and silly.
Constance, poor lady left out with nothing after her aunt died, forced to work as a companion to a shrew wicked relative.
She was humble and sane character after she got married to the haughty lord Phillip, who her relative was setting her cap on him, to save her from her problems she turns arrogant.
She adopt zero gratitude to the person who saved her from humiliation, hunger and poverty.
By far, Constance is the worst Heroine ever.
Constance, poor lady left out with nothing after her aunt died, forced to work as a companion to a shrew wicked relative.
She was humble and sane character after she got married to the haughty lord Phillip, who her relative was setting her cap on him, to save her from her problems she turns arrogant.
She adopt zero gratitude to the person who saved her from humiliation, hunger and poverty.
By far, Constance is the worst Heroine ever.
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October 4, 2021
The main characters are actually unpleasant: she's shrill, he's pompous. They are given a run for their money by other characters who are mean spirited and cruel. In addition, the plot is bizarre as well as tedious. I would pass on this one.
June 14, 2021
Clean Regency romance from an author who expertly includes descriptions of this historical era.
February 19, 2015
Miss Constance Lamberton is left destitute by the death of her aunt. She receives a letter from a distant relative - Lady Amelia Godolphin - intended for her aunt but she decides to travel to London and ask Lady Amelia to accept her as a companion in place of her aunt. Thanks to the intervention, not wholly well-meaning, of Lady Amelia's friend, Mrs Besant, Constance becomes her companion.
But that is really only the start of a distant set of problems when she attracts the attentions of Lord Philip Caudry as Lady Amelia was hoping to marry him herself. Instead Constance marries him. It is a marriage of convenience but Constance at least is in love and when she disappears Philip realises he cares more than he thought for his bride.
This is an exciting story and involves an element of mystery and intrigue. I liked the characters especially Lord Philip's eccentric friend, Peter Potter who always goes around in strange clothes and writes poetry. Lady Amelia and Mrs Mary Besant have to be two of the nastiest women in M C Beaton's books, not to speak of Lord Philip's snobbish sister, Lady Eleanor.
If you want an entertaining story with romance and a hint of mystery to curl up with on a cold winter afternoon then this book will probably fill the bill admirably.
But that is really only the start of a distant set of problems when she attracts the attentions of Lord Philip Caudry as Lady Amelia was hoping to marry him herself. Instead Constance marries him. It is a marriage of convenience but Constance at least is in love and when she disappears Philip realises he cares more than he thought for his bride.
This is an exciting story and involves an element of mystery and intrigue. I liked the characters especially Lord Philip's eccentric friend, Peter Potter who always goes around in strange clothes and writes poetry. Lady Amelia and Mrs Mary Besant have to be two of the nastiest women in M C Beaton's books, not to speak of Lord Philip's snobbish sister, Lady Eleanor.
If you want an entertaining story with romance and a hint of mystery to curl up with on a cold winter afternoon then this book will probably fill the bill admirably.
December 31, 2014
I secretly hoped Peter would overcome the planned hero... I liked him much better.
September 14, 2019
The story is about the quiet Constance Lamberton. She is an orphan who came to the household of the beautiful Lady Amelia Godolphin. She would serve as Lady Amelia's chaperone at the Season's many festivities. Lady Amelia's scheme is to trap the eligible Lord Philip Cautry into marriage.
As any regency romances it is not Lady Amelia who won Lord Philip's heart. It was the golden-eyed Constance. Constance ended up becoming Lady Philip Cautry. It was not a marriage made in heaven.
Constance disappeared. Lord Philip didn't know why or how she disappeared. Nor did he care. All that mattered to him now was the safe return of his beloved wife Constance. The story was ok I have read better regency then this story. i think it felt typical the one who wants the handsome Lord is not the one who ends up with him. It is the mousy one who no one cares about that wins his heart.
As any regency romances it is not Lady Amelia who won Lord Philip's heart. It was the golden-eyed Constance. Constance ended up becoming Lady Philip Cautry. It was not a marriage made in heaven.
Constance disappeared. Lord Philip didn't know why or how she disappeared. Nor did he care. All that mattered to him now was the safe return of his beloved wife Constance. The story was ok I have read better regency then this story. i think it felt typical the one who wants the handsome Lord is not the one who ends up with him. It is the mousy one who no one cares about that wins his heart.
September 17, 2018
Not the best Regency I’ve ever read, and very much adhering to Chesney’s formula as seen in her other books, but still a delight to read. There was a little too much misunderstanding between hero and heroine, and the villainy of the French was over emphasized, but the story swept me along as usual. Short and sweet, with some peculiar supporting characters, especially forgetful Peter and his familiar.
December 18, 2018
What
Read for research. Short and borderline absurdist. Every character felt over the top cliche and the plot just kind of happens to the MC. I knew this was supposed to be more mystery than romance but it was very predictable. The unpredictable things felt unnecessary and distracting. The ending is so abrupt. There was some solid banter but it also felt anachronistic. Overall a disappointing read.
Read for research. Short and borderline absurdist. Every character felt over the top cliche and the plot just kind of happens to the MC. I knew this was supposed to be more mystery than romance but it was very predictable. The unpredictable things felt unnecessary and distracting. The ending is so abrupt. There was some solid banter but it also felt anachronistic. Overall a disappointing read.
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June 29, 2022I don't have much good to say about this book. The characters aren't likable. The narrator made everyone sound like they were elderly. If you read the preview, you know the first 12 chapters. I gave it 2 stars instead of one just because it is 40 years old. I didn't read then. Maybe books were just bad overall.
July 31, 2022
The Constant Companion is a cute Regency romance about a humble girl who moves to London to become a lady’s companion. The characters feel inconsistent with the heroine changing completely in personality once she weds. The romance feels forced, and some of the storyline stretches believability. Contains graphic sex scenes.
The narrator of the audiobook is well suited to the job.
The narrator of the audiobook is well suited to the job.
April 26, 2020
I'm sorry what is this bonkers story? It's just constant madness all over the place. I will say all the loose ends were tied up, though. But our poor heroine comes off kinda like a bimbo. Our hero is just running around. A crazy spy plot. It's just A LOT going on.
October 29, 2017
Another fun read!
Mario n Chesney's books are like taking a vacation. Witty, light and filled with anecdotes. Once again I had fun in her world.
Mario n Chesney's books are like taking a vacation. Witty, light and filled with anecdotes. Once again I had fun in her world.
July 2, 2020
I am a big fan of this author but did not care for this book. The characters were unlikable.
November 23, 2021
Really a 2.5, but it made me laugh out loud several times and that has to be worth at least half a point. I have found very few current regency authors who have any humor in their books. I miss it.
October 15, 2022
Amelia was a witch.
Phillip was a twit.
Constance was too twee.
And Peter and the cat were a hoot.
Phillip was a twit.
Constance was too twee.
And Peter and the cat were a hoot.
November 1, 2022
Something definitely was missing. I didn’t feel much reading this book. The narration was ment to be satirical but it felt too distant. The book felt OK read but rather bland.
April 30, 2023
Marion Chesney's heroines are always so silly, and her heroes are always so proud. Still, one of the better Chesney romances I've read.
November 20, 2023
This story is just okay. Not one of her best productions.
March 19, 2024
The most ridiculous story I’ve ever read. A mash up of a soap opera and a boys adventure tale. Very unlike other Marion Chesney stories.
August 31, 2023
Comic and gruesome.
October 22, 2014
And so the quiet Constance Lamberton, an orphan, came to the household of the haughty and beautiful Lady Amelia Godolphin. She would serve as milady's chaperone at the Season's many festivities, an unwitting accomplice in Lady Amelia's scheme to trap the very eligible Lord Philip Cautry into marriage.
But it was not Lady Amelia who won Lord Philip's heart. It was the pale, golden-eyed Constance. And very soon, Constance became Lady Philip Cautry. It was not a marriage made in heaven. But sorely, in time....
And then Constance disappeared. Lord Philip didn't know why or how. Nor did he care. All that mattered to him now was the safe return of his beloved Constance...
A fun romantic read.
But it was not Lady Amelia who won Lord Philip's heart. It was the pale, golden-eyed Constance. And very soon, Constance became Lady Philip Cautry. It was not a marriage made in heaven. But sorely, in time....
And then Constance disappeared. Lord Philip didn't know why or how. Nor did he care. All that mattered to him now was the safe return of his beloved Constance...
A fun romantic read.
December 3, 2024
In my opinion, hands down the WORST Chesney Romance I have ever read. The idiocy just doesn't stop, and one wonders which character is less appealing; the selfish, spoiled, jealous and incredibly ungrateful Constance or her ridiculous, insensitive and jealous husband Lord Philip. Throw in the simpleton best friend Peter, and one can only shake one's head.
The storyline is ludicrously Gothic, and infuriatingly drags on and on and on. Right to the end they persist on seemingly deliberately misunderstanding one another and squabbling.
I'm assuming rather than being one of the usual Happily Ever After stories, this marriage looks destined to either divorce or the unhappy couple throttling one another.
The two of them deserve one another.
The storyline is ludicrously Gothic, and infuriatingly drags on and on and on. Right to the end they persist on seemingly deliberately misunderstanding one another and squabbling.
I'm assuming rather than being one of the usual Happily Ever After stories, this marriage looks destined to either divorce or the unhappy couple throttling one another.
The two of them deserve one another.
April 8, 2011
This is one of the few books/series I would read again. These stories of Marion Chesney started me on my adventure...reading Regency Romance/Novels/History! There is not a set of books that will teach you more about the basics about life in Regency England. There are six series with six books each. I love them all. It must be a "past life" thing:)
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