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Laddar... Manor for Sale, Baron Included: A Victorian Romance (A Romance of Rank Book 1)av Esther Hatch
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. When I’m in the mood for a fun historical fiction romance, I know I can count on a story by Esther Hatch to entertain and satisfy me. Manor for Sale, Baron Included certainly filled the bill and kept me laughing and rooting for Lord Farnsworth to win his lady. I loved that he was a little naïve, self-conscious, and down-to-earth, instead of aloof and worldly like some barons are depicted. Sally Duncan is charming, spunky, and fun-loving, and I loved her compassion and tenderness toward her sister Victoria. I adore Hatch’s sense of humor and witty dialogue. She always adds such fun to her fantastic historical fiction tales. I’ll be looking forward to more of her stories soon. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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"Lord Farnsworth would rather rot in debtor's prison than sell the one place that feels like home to him -- his mother's manor. That is, until he meets the woman who wants to buy it. Sally Duncan is beautiful, intelligent, and as rich as a baron -- a rich baron, not a cash-strapped one like Lord Farnsworth. She's the solution to every one of his financial problems and is bewitching to boot. All he needs to do is sell her his beloved manor and then charm her to the altar, and the manor will be his again. Simple, right? But nothing is simple when Sally starts tearing apart his ancestral home and renovating it in a way no one would consider tasteful. She is wreaking havoc on everything, but he cannot give up on owning his mother's estate again, nor can he imagine anyone but Sally as his wife." -- Amazon.com Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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His solicitor startles him with a proposal to sell only the manor. There's an offer from a very successful merchant, the owner of British Vermilion Textiles, who wants only the manor. The other surprise is that this merchant is a woman, an unmarried woman, Sally Duncan. After his initial very negative reaction, Lord Farnsworth, i.e. Jonathan, has a clever idea that will solve all his problems.
Miss Duncan, of course, has her own plans, that do not include marrying a baron who is apparently so poor at money management and so profligate that he has to sell a valuable part of his inheritance in order to make ends meet. And for all her attention to details, she misses the detail in the contract that means that in addition to retaining ownership of all the lands except for right around the manor, including the hunting lodge, the dividing line between the two properties goes right through the middle of the pond between the manor and the lodge.
It's a great surprise when, a few days after having moved in, she looks out and sees a man swimming in what she believes is her pond. This is annoying to her, but seriously objectionable with regard to her younger sister, who will be moving in with her shortly. Victoria is only fourteen, and the standards of Victorian England mean that the sight of a man whose shirt and breeches are clinging to his form due to being wet, is shocking and completely unacceptable. Since Victoria is also crippled and mostly confined to a wheelchair, Sally is also caught between the need to protect her, and the need to encourage greater confidence and independence.
She's hoping the baron will leave soon. Jonathan has no intention of leaving without Sally's agreement to marry him.
Sally isn't the usual sort of lady Jonathan meets in London society, and doesn't find is title nearly as attractive as most ladies to. Jonathan, in turn, is not the sort of minor noble Sally has met before, focused solely on producing an heir to keep his lands and titles in his own line, and regarding daughters as optional extras, acceptable as long as there is also a son. He wants a happy family to fill his mother's house, and doesn't care that much about his title.
What follows is a comedy of errors, miscommunication, and misunderstandings. It's light, silly, and a lot of fun.
A nice listen if you're looking for light entertainment on a too-warm day.
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