Outback Summer

by Nancy John

PBK

Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Nancy Jean Buckingham was born on 10 August 1924 in Bristol, England, UK. In 1949, she married John Sawyer, born on 4 October 1919 in London, England, UK. They formed one of the most popular writting-team marriage. The first books published under her maiden name Nancy Buckingham since 1967, are classical gothic novels. In 1970s, they started to used the pseudonyms: Christina Abbey and Erica Quest. In 1980, they sold her first novels to Silhouette, and they mixed their names to create the penname Nancy John. They also published one novel as Hilary London. The last novels that they published are a popular police series as Erica Quest, protagonized by the Detective Chief Inspector Kate Maddox. Their last novel was released in 1992.

Nancy Jean Buckingham Sawyer was the eighth elected Chairman (1973-1975) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and is now one of its vice-presidents. John passed away in 1994.

Reviews

[Live2Read · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was alright…love-angst-filled but it turned a bit tiring at the end. Both hero and heroine keeps saying and doing the same wrong mistakes over and over. Too many times I found the heroine stupid and annoying. She has the nerve to keep parroting that the next time he dare kiss her she won’t respond. Which he strongly proved otherwise. Every single time he takes her in his arms, she only melt like butter. Like girl, you can stfu now! You ain’t cute with that lying mouth, ya know. And for some reason the hero feels like he need to constantly remind her, in case we the reader forgets, that she’s a passionate woman. It all but took him one look and a kiss to identify what kind of “Sheila” she is. One full of a hunger only he can filled up. Silently, this sheila high-key agrees with him! At this point, I feel like the author is forcing it. I kind of tuned out…not the worst but the author could fix some! Btw, Sheila is a term for a beautiful, sexy, attractive woman as he would always tell her.

[B.E. · Rating 4 out of 5]

Typical early eighties romance novel. Definitely written before the PC culture invaded, which is kind of refreshing every now and then.