A Taste For Love

by Joyce Dingwell

Gina enjoyed every minute of her work with the orphans, and was quite convinced that the only way to deal successfully with children was through love. She thought the Superintendent, Miles Fairland, shared her views -- until Yasmin Winter came on the scene, with her cold-hearted theories. How could Miles possibly agree with her, as he so obviously did?

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Enid Joyce Owen Dingwell, née Starr, was born on 1908 in Ryde, New South Wales, Australia. She wrote, as Joyce Dingwell and Kate Starr, 80 romance novels for Mills & Boon from 1931 to 1986. She was the first Australian writer living in Australia to be published by Mills & Boon. Her novel The House in the Timberwood (1959), was made into a motion picture, The Winds of Jarrah (1983). Her work was particularly notable for its use of the Australian land, culture, and people. She passed away on 2 August 1997 in Kincumber, New South Wales.

Reviews

[Last Chance Saloon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Rather a sweet story set in a children’s home in Australia in the 1960s.
The heroine is the young daughter of the retiring head of the orphanage, who helps to look after the children. She loves them and is constantly worrying about little problems that each has whilst others are trying to talk to her. She has been dating the sports master for two years with no sign of a proposal and now her friend is engaged and soon to be married, she wants to be settled, especially as she needs a new home for her and her father. The friend advises her to use the new head to make her boyfriend jealous. She has already encountered him (the hero) and they are really in tune with each other. Unfortunately, the hero overhears the two conversing and decides to get his own back for using him and it leads him to not trust her on occasion.
The story is a series of daily encounters that bring the two closer together. The heroine never at any time tries to engage the hero, she is often just anxious about one of the young, as is he. She seems to forget about the boyfriend (they never date), but things come to a head when her friend leaves to be married early and she is replaced by the OW - a woman who studied alongside the hero in Europe.
Yet this is another of the author’s tender tales, where the romance is secondary to the happenings of the home and where the main characters are perfectly suited to each other.
4 stars on a first read.

[KSHG · Rating 4 out of 5]

8.5/10 Last Chance Saloon's review is spot on. Enjoyable, angstless story which revolves around the antics and trials of working in an orphanage. The children are very well depicted and both MCs are likeable. I believe in their HEA. It is similar to "The New Broom" in its plot. There is death in both stories.