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Fen was living an acceptable life as a bartender at Pub Mitre until an encounter with a knife-wielding punk leads to her meeting dashing insurance salesman Joe, and a coworker's illness turns her into the pub's hottest new singer! But her well-meaning family conspires to make her lose her job. Now Fen’s run away from her family and fallen for Joe. But no matter how much she may try to run, she knows they'll track her down again. Will Fen find a new job and a new family with Joe, or will her past get in the way?
- GenresJosei
First published March 4, 2015
About the author
Catherine George
455 books73 followersDeirdre Matthews was born in a village on the Welsh-English border, where the public library featured largely in her life. Her mother, who looked upon literature as a basic necessity of life, fervently encouraged her passion for reading, little knowing it would one day motivate her daughter into writing her first novel.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
At 18, she met a future Engineer, who had set in a pendant a gold sovereign, that his grandmother put in his hand when he was born, and she have never taken off since. After their marriage he swept her off to Brazil, where he worked as Chief Engineer of a large gold-mining operation in the mountains of Minas Gerais, a setting which later provided a very popular background for several of her early novels. Nine happy years passed there before the question of their small son's education decided their return to Britain. Not long afterward a daughter was born, and for a time she lived a fulfilled life as a wife and mother who always made time to read, especially in the bath!
Her husband's job took him abroad again, to Portugal, West Africa, and various countries of the Middle East, but this time she stayed home with the family. And spent a lot of lonely evenings in between the reunions when her husband came home on leave. "Instead of reading other people's novels all the time," he suggested one day, "why not have a shot at writing one yourself?" So she did.
But first she took a creative writing course. Encouraged by the other students' enthusiasm for her contributions, she decided to try her hand at romance, and read countless Mills & Boon novels as research before writing one herself. Her first novel was accepted in 1982 as Catherine George, which Romantic Times voted best of its genre for that year, along with more than sixty written since.
These days son and daughter have fled the nest, but they return with loving regularity to where she and her husband back for good from his travels live, with Prince, the most recent Labrador, in a house built at the end of Victoria's reign in four acres of garden on the cliffs between the beautiful Wye Valley and the River Severn.
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August 17, 2019
People With No Real Problems Fall In Love
Yeah, this is a bit messy. The plot meanders, and yet the love story still progresses too quickly. Joe gets too fussy about a lack of complete disclosure of Fen's past, basically to get a separation to cause drama. Fen allows her cousin to have waaaaay too much control of her life, even in situations where he wouldn't have the power.
The art, like in many of the Harlequin comics, is pretty basic manga artwork, sometimes with boring grey backgrounds rather than something that took effort.
There's nothing exceptional about this, and nothing interesting enough to recommend it. While it wasn't awful, it was rushed with unbelievable elements, so I'd give it a pass.
Yeah, this is a bit messy. The plot meanders, and yet the love story still progresses too quickly. Joe gets too fussy about a lack of complete disclosure of Fen's past, basically to get a separation to cause drama. Fen allows her cousin to have waaaaay too much control of her life, even in situations where he wouldn't have the power.
The art, like in many of the Harlequin comics, is pretty basic manga artwork, sometimes with boring grey backgrounds rather than something that took effort.
There's nothing exceptional about this, and nothing interesting enough to recommend it. While it wasn't awful, it was rushed with unbelievable elements, so I'd give it a pass.
January 27, 2017
Very different to the normal stories ...
...
but still wonderful.
Fen has been sheltered by her family all her life but a important slip of information has her leaving her family and being independent.
Fen is nearly mugged but turns the tables on the would-be mugger and ends up meeting Joe.
Fen allows him to drive her home but Joe is critical of all that Fen holds dear. Fen works as a bar woman, but filled in for a sick singer and this is when she gets into trouble with brother Adam.
Fen, Joe and Adam have tense relations but all works out in the end.
Great graphics, clear and readable text.
...
but still wonderful.
Fen has been sheltered by her family all her life but a important slip of information has her leaving her family and being independent.
Fen is nearly mugged but turns the tables on the would-be mugger and ends up meeting Joe.
Fen allows him to drive her home but Joe is critical of all that Fen holds dear. Fen works as a bar woman, but filled in for a sick singer and this is when she gets into trouble with brother Adam.
Fen, Joe and Adam have tense relations but all works out in the end.
Great graphics, clear and readable text.
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