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Chargement... Love Comes Home (1938)par Molly Clavering
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"Love romps home and sets the whole place by the ears, gets her own way in everything, and father and mother don't even notice they're being crossed!" Jane Cranstoun is having a lovely time with friends in England (and has just been proposed to by the charming John Marsh) when she is summoned home to Scotland to welcome her young sister Love, newly returned from being 'finished' in Paris. Keeping her engagement a secret, and drawn back into an 'endless round of good works and dull county functions', Jane promptly gets off on the wrong foot with Peregrine Gilbert, a local politician and naturalist, and soon falls prey to Love's inveterate (and incompetent) matchmaking. Supported by a lively and vividly-portrayed cast of family and friends, Jane must steer carefully to avoid the pitfalls of misunderstandings, gossip, and misguided romance. Molly Clavering was for many years the neighbour and friend of bestselling author D.E. Stevenson, and they may well have influenced one another's writing. First published in 1938 (under the pseudonym B. Mollett) and out of print for more than 80 years, Love Comes Home is one of her funniest and happiest tales. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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In this book, Jane returns home to Scotland from a visit where she became secretly engaged to a young naval officer. Her younger sister Love is also newly returned from finishing school or something like that. Where Jane is sensible and mild, Love is calculating, exuberant and brash. Love has made "plans" for her sister and herself about which men they must marry, and she loses no time maneuvering everyone into a state of confusion. Including the reader. You're just sure that Love's plans are all wrong. Or are they? Or aren't they? The plot keeps you on unsteady ground.
The writing, though, is thoroughly enjoyable. ( )