Review: This was a hoot!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 1, 2013
What a crazy tale, not to be believed, but a great way to set up a early 20th century love story.  Stodgey 'Still Waters' needs a fiancee, for a year, for which he'll pay Miss Trant.  She's darned tired of working in the steno pool, needs the cash, so she accepts.  From there the intertwining of other characters come into play; a sweet mother, nutty sister and zany uncle, to list a few.  I actually think this could have made a fun stage play, something on the order or Arsenic and Old Lace (although there is no murder in this story!) with zany folks weaving in and out of the story.  Read Berta Ruck's novels; they are fun with very unusual storylines. Excellent summer reading at the beach!