Review: Brings Back the Well-Written 40s and 50s Romances
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2012
I'm not much on love stories ... except maybe "Jane Eyre" with its darker mysteries ... but I must say that this novella just made me ... happy. It's well written, not syrupy, has tight story lines and, although some would think that it could have been longer, it was just perfect. I read it in one sitting (or lying as the case may be), and really wanted to find out whether boy gets girl and they lived happily ever after.It's sort of Disneyesque at its best (Beauty and the Beast except this would be Beauty and Handsome), and brought me back to the stories out of mid-20th Century. I might even see Doris Day in the lead.So, basically I thoroughly enjoyed it and was left satisfied.I'm hesitant to buy another because of my expectations and the variety of Heather Horrocks' writings, but I already have "Old Money" on my list.EW