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Practice Makes Perfect
Dr Lydia Moore, returning from India concerned about her grandfather, discovered shockingly that he was already dead, and that apparently he had willed the GP surgery and flat above to Dr Sam Davenport, his locum. The house was still Lydia's, but she had always hoped to take over the practice. Without the security of her grandfather's love, or his work, Lydia didn't seem to be able to find the right way to handle Sam. He veered between compassionate tenderness and outright anger at this 'gold-digger' - was there no middle ground?
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published December 1, 1991
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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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July 22, 2024
Having read all of Caroline Anderson's recent books, I've been checking out some of her early ones. Some, such as A Perfect Hero, Playing the Joker and A Man of Honour, are pretty good. Practice Makes Perfect, her second book, is dreadful. It's hopelessly dated and the 'hero' treats the heroine appallingly.
Dr Lydia Moore arrives back in England, after working in a mobile medical practice in India, to discover that her beloved grandfather has died and left his village medical practice to his locum, Dr Sam Davenport. Sam has had unhappy experiences with two female colleagues and now refuses to work with women doctors. He says offensive things to Lydia, eg, 'You had to play God in your paddy fields with the natives and let your grandfather rot here all alone!' When she wants to take over the practice, he calls her a gold-digger. He accuses her of sleeping with other men to achieve her aims (she's a 29 year old virgin). He jumps to conclusions about her actions without letting her explain herself and is patronising and sexist. He blows hot and cold with her, comforting her when she's upset, kissing her uninvited, then losing his temper at her.
They fall in love with each other. Goodness knows what she sees in him, apart from good looks and his being nice to his patients. At least Lydia has the backbone to tell Sam off sometimes, although at other times she's a doormat, cooking his meals.
The sex scenes are old-fashioned and badly written, full of purple prose. When Sam overhears a conversation between Lydia and a superior he misconstrues it, accuses her of sleeping with the other man and calls her a lying whore. He finds her gathering her things from his bedroom, has sex with her, then tells her to get out!
In the last few pages Lydia tells Sam that he's contemptible and that any apologies have come too late but when, a few days later, he does apologise, they declare their love again, fall into each other's arms and all is apparently forgiven!
Zero stars.
Dr Lydia Moore arrives back in England, after working in a mobile medical practice in India, to discover that her beloved grandfather has died and left his village medical practice to his locum, Dr Sam Davenport. Sam has had unhappy experiences with two female colleagues and now refuses to work with women doctors. He says offensive things to Lydia, eg, 'You had to play God in your paddy fields with the natives and let your grandfather rot here all alone!' When she wants to take over the practice, he calls her a gold-digger. He accuses her of sleeping with other men to achieve her aims (she's a 29 year old virgin). He jumps to conclusions about her actions without letting her explain herself and is patronising and sexist. He blows hot and cold with her, comforting her when she's upset, kissing her uninvited, then losing his temper at her.
They fall in love with each other. Goodness knows what she sees in him, apart from good looks and his being nice to his patients. At least Lydia has the backbone to tell Sam off sometimes, although at other times she's a doormat, cooking his meals.
The sex scenes are old-fashioned and badly written, full of purple prose. When Sam overhears a conversation between Lydia and a superior he misconstrues it, accuses her of sleeping with the other man and calls her a lying whore. He finds her gathering her things from his bedroom, has sex with her, then tells her to get out!
In the last few pages Lydia tells Sam that he's contemptible and that any apologies have come too late but when, a few days later, he does apologise, they declare their love again, fall into each other's arms and all is apparently forgiven!
Zero stars.
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