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Margaret Pedler (–1948)

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Red Ashes (1925) 15 exemplar
The Hermit of Far End (1922) 10 exemplar
The Lamp of Fate (1921) 10 exemplar
The House of Dreams Come True (1919) 10 exemplar
The Vision of Desire (1922) 9 exemplar
The Moon Out of Reach (1921) 9 exemplar
Yesterday's Harvest (1925) 9 exemplar
The Splendid Folly (1921) 8 exemplar
Bitter Heritage (1928) 6 exemplar
The Barbarian Lover (1926) 6 exemplar
Desert Sand 5 exemplar
The Guarded Halo (1929) 4 exemplar
The Shining Cloud (1976) 4 exemplar
Fire Of Youth (1941) 3 exemplar
Tomorrow's Tangle (1926) 3 exemplar
Distant Dawn (1934) 3 exemplar
UNLESS TWO BE AGREED (1946) 3 exemplar
Not heaven itself (1974) 2 exemplar
Waves of Destiny (1924) 2 exemplar
Flame in the wind (1938) 2 exemplar
Kindled Flame 2 exemplar
Pitiless choice 1 exemplar
Un Choix cruel 1 exemplar
Checkered paths 1 exemplar
Blind loyalty 1 exemplar
Many Ways (1931) 1 exemplar
Then came the test 1 exemplar
Hermit of the Far End, The (1920) 1 exemplar
The Greater Courage (1933) 1 exemplar
Distant Dawn 1 exemplar
Green judgment 1 exemplar

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When Eliot is jilted by Cara because he is poor, he withdraws from society and becomes a misogynist. Years later, he is rich, and he employs a young man, Robin, as his estate agent. Robin brings his sister Ann to live with him in the little cottage. Isn't life full of coincidences--Ann and Eliot have already met, although they never got as far as names. They saw each other exactly 3 times in Europe, and once he saved her life.
At least three men are trying to court Ann, which makes things more difficult for Eliot, who is struggling in his debate with himself over whether he can or cannot trust any woman. Also Cara, the woman who originally rejected him in favor of someone wealthy, is moving back into the neighborhood without realizing that they will be neighbors. Also Ann's brother is falling in love with Cara (who is now widowed and deeply regrets her first marriage).
Quite a good read except for the fact that I hate the seemingly inevitable parts of a story where misunderstandings separate people because of willful lack of communication and pride.
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Alishadt | Feb 25, 2023 |
I enjoyed this quite a bit, but the pantomime villains took it into overly dramatic territory for me.

Jean Peterson is staying at a hotel in the Alps, when she meets a Byronic hero while she is out ice-skating. He stops her from falling on the ice. There is an unspoken attraction. He suggests that they keep one another company for just this one day, never knowing each other's names, and never planning to meet again. Jean hardly knows why, but she agrees.

After Jean leaves the Alps, she goes to England, where she is to stay for a long visit with a friend of her father's. This lady, a widow with two sons, warmly welcomes Jean to her home. (If you can guess who one of the two sons is, good job. Except it's not actually that hard to guess.)

Anyway, there's a certain amount of satisfyingly predictable barely suppressed emotions and it's all very Jane Eyre and Mr. Rochester, which is fine with me. But then there are two flies in the ointment...a neighbor man who pursues Jean in a way that today would get him slapped with all kinds of judicial process (seriously, this is the hardest part for a modern girl to swallow, especially when Jean excuses his behavior on the basis that he can't help it because he just loves her that much...arghh, no), and then there's also a hot-headed Italian lady with a craving for revenge from a Tragic Past. These two characters went much too far.

But I liked Jean and her hero (his name is Blaise, by the way), and most of the other characters. I also thought the story was pretty engrossing, and I do like that the main characters decide not to grab at happiness in a way that would cheapen it (more shades of Jane Eyre). Romantic stories written a hundred or more years ago do often hold up self-control and moral integrity as things to be admired, especially when exercised at great personal cost.
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Verk
37
Medlemmar
144
Popularitet
#143,281
Betyg
3.0
Recensioner
2
ISBN
35
Språk
1

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