Review: Outstanding
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 10, 2014
Miss Jane Featherstone is as plain as her plain Jane name.  She is no beauty nor is she curvaceous.  Nor does she and her elderly father have a feather to fly.  It is her duty to sponsor her cousin Lady Sarah (who is beautiful in every way and also very wealthy) in her coming out.  Lord Slade has made a vow to his father on his death bed to bring Dunvale Castle is preserved but there is no money for that.  His only hope is to marry Lady Sarah and use her money to refinish the castle.  He is too honest to marry without love and has promised Jane that unless he say he loves Lady Sarah he will not ask for her hand.  Jane has recently met Cecil Poppinbotham.  She has fond feelings for him but it has been three years since her coming out and she has not had one caller.  If she doesn't marry she will have to live with her brother and snooty wife that she is not crazy about.  She decides if Poppinbotham proposes she will accept because she wants her own home and children.  He has earned his riches and has no problem quoting the price he paid for something which Jane finds distasteful.  Plus he wears expensive clothes that a outrageously mismatched for my taste.  This book can make you laugh and cry.