Patricia and the Rosefields

by Kate Starr

192 pages, Unknown Binding

First published January 1, 1964

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 at 80 romance novels at Mills & Boon from 1931 to 1986. She was the first Austalian writer, who lives in Australia, published at Mills & Boon. Her novel The House in the Timberwood (1959), had been 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

[Helena meijer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Funny and happily dated in the fifties

[Last Chance Saloon · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 1/2 stars. It's a very cute, quirky, and charming vintage tale set in the suburbs in Australia with a heroine that likes to be a homemaker (24) and an English doctor (28) newly in Australia opening a practice next to the home the heroine is working at. She is looking after 13 children whilst their parents are in hospital and they are all oddities which causes lots of escapades that the hero gets roped in to help with. It's light on romance, but an enjoyable and entertaining story.