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Monday, December 12th.

Cobweb Morning

Retrograde amnesiac sociopath (yes, it's that one),  

hero wears shabby tweeds and drives an aging Morris 1000.

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Francesca was extra careful when
checking the sell-by dates.

For those of you who are following along at home, these are the FINAL TWO REVIEWS. It's hard to believe we're nearly finished getting through all 134ish books.

Monday, April 25th. The Fortunes of Francesca. Younger brother is a med student, sweet older aunt, evil older uncle.

Thursday, April 28th. The Final Touch. Twins! Stepsister is a model! Knitting!

Perhaps when Charity finishes up the sweaters
for the twins, she could whip up this little
number for herself.

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Monday, April 18th. Fate Takes A Hand. Eulalia works as a florist. Secret purchase of a....house! Broken bones galore (well, two).

It only sounds like a made-up name.

Thursday, April 21st. The Doctor's Girl.  Weird Names backwards R Us - Loveday is a temp for Dr. Fforde after working for Miss Mimi Cattell.



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Monday, April 11th. The Little Dragon. Coffee poured 'accidentally on purpose' down someone's back, RDD pretends to be PDD(poor Dutch doctor).

Thursday, April 14th. Hilltop Tryst.  "No girl of twenty-six likes to be reminded that she is going to be twenty-seven." Daddy has a coronary.

Not this kind of 'Hilltop Tryst"

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This old thing? I just whipped it up on my serger.

Monday, April 4th. An Independent Woman. Curtains into dresses! Three sisters get married. Julia writes the text for greeting cards.

He was just looking for a basic three bedroom semi-detached
in a nice little village.  A quiet place to raise his little baby
bikers. The family silver was just a little too tempting.

Thursday, April 7th. A Summer Idyll. Or What About Basil? Phoebe gets beaten up by a biker,  Mrs. Thirsk gets the flu just in time for Phoebe's first dinner party.

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Not this Melville.
(Melville Dewey, creator of the
Dewey Decimal System)

Monday, March 14th. Off With the Old Love. Boyfriend named Melville who's in television. Unfortunate rabbit fur jacket that was supposed to lend a 'cachet' to her outfit. It didn't.











Not this Leslie.
(Leslie Nielson in Forbidden Planet)



Thursday, March 17th. Esmeralda. Or...The Girl With The Gimpy Foot. The part of Tony the Fiancee is played by Leslie Chapman the Boyfriend (Leslie?? Of course he's a rotter!).



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Next week does not bode well for parents in the world of Betty Neels. 

Monday, March 7th. A Matter of Chance. Cressida's parents have recently kicked the bucket. She's got a job in Holland typing a learned medical something-er-other for someone. WWII references.

Thursday, March 10th. A Suitable Match. Eustacia Crump, assistant Path Lab bottlewasher, skateboards her way into Colin's heart. Marriage of Convenience...Eustacia and Colin marry for the sake of his recently orphaned nephews.

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Monday, February 28th. A Dream Came True.  Jemima(!) is companion to the cantankerous Lady Manderly. Snowbound in Scotland...ladies maid breaks her arm. Rescue by helicopter!

Thursday, March 3rd. At the End of the Day. Julia is just turned 30. Professor van der Wagema is looking 42 in the face. The part of the fiancee is played by Neville Nigel Longbottom Longman. 

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Monday, February 7th. Never Say Goodbye. Trip behind the Iron Curtain! Hidden amber necklace, agency nurse.

Sibella requests an addition to the family.

Thursday, February 10th. Never Too Late. Another fiancee named Tony. MOC to a widower with a young daughter.

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A little money spent on the roof and the
manor house would be right as rain.

Monday, January 31st. Daughter of the Manor.  The new doctor in town is hot but Leonora has her hands full with scheming fianceé Tony (with a name like that, you just know it won't end well).

No, not this kind of magic.

Thursday, February 3rd. A Kind of Magic.  Rosie, a Junoesque shorthand typist and  Hot Scottish Doctor, Sir Fergus Cameron.  He bags her groceries at the supermarket. Rosie's maiden aunt gets married.

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Monday, January 24th. Love Can Wait. Kate Crosby is a housekeeper with dreams of starting her own catering business. "It would be nice, she thought, serving the meringues with an impassive face, to put a dead rat in the girl's bed."

Thursday, January 27th. At Odds With Love. Expensive Prussian blue dress ruined by blood the first time Jane wears it.  Jane drives the Bristol to Amsterdam. Earthquake!

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Monday, January 10th. Stars Through the Mist. Marriage of Convenience, a cad named Claude, a lost group of school girls on a botany field trip.

Monday, January 13th. Only By Chance. Honest to goodness orphan - raised in an orphanage! Sees the ocean for the first time - evidently the orphans never rated a trip to the seashore.

Betty Keira just called me...rather frantic - because I got a little ahead of myself...Stars Through the Mist will be reviewed on January 17th. Next up is All Else Confusion on January 10th.

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Monday, January 3rd. Polly. Polly has a natural bent for dead languages. Manuscript typing. Kissing and proposal in the middle of Crewe Station.

Thursday, January 6th. Roses Have Thorns. After getting sacked because of a favor she does for Radolf, Sarah disappears. Radolf searches high and low before he accidentally finds her working as a housemaid for his god-mother.

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Monday, December 27th. A Christmas Proposal. Cinderella story, some truly hideous clothes worn by Bertha. Yes, Bertha.

Thursday, December 30th. A Happy Meeting. Household help named Jolly!! Crossover characters Tyco and Charity from The Final Touch. Daring blizzard rescue!

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Monday, December 20th. Roses for Christmas. Eleanor and Fulk have known each other since she was four years old, she's a nurse in Edinburgh, he's engaged.

Thursday, December 23rd. A Christmas Romance. Heroine with the unlikely name of 'Theodosia', cat named Gustavus, mid-Victorian aunts with a housekeeper named Mrs. Trickey.

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Monday, December 13th. The Mistletoe Kiss. Kitten rescue, Emmy gets knocked out by some burglars, a telephonist with a penchant for doing fine embroidery.

Thursday, December 16th. A Christmas Wish. An Olivia (arguably 'THE' Olivia), cranky grandmother, girls boarding school.

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Monday, December 6th. The Edge of Winter. A real Araminta, a Pott's fracture, RDD has a devious aunt.

Thursday, December 9th. The Fifth Day of Christmas. Snowed in! Perhaps the narrowest age gap in Neeldom, another polio case!

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Monday, November 29th. Winter Wedding. Heroine is mistaken for a single mother! Seconal Twins! Worst Sister/Aunt Ever!

Thursday, December 2nd. A Winter Love Story. "I'd rather buy a book than a hat", Marriage of Convenience, they buy a cottage together!

Preview of Things to Come...

As you can see, it's snowing outside my house right now. I adore snow. In moderation. And from the inside of a cozy home, preferably with a fire in the fireplace. I don't adore snow to drive in...luckily I went to the store this morning before it started - I can now cuddle up by the warm glow of my computer screen.

I thought it might be a good time to give our readers a sneak peek at what we'll be reviewing in December...you'll have to check the regular Tuesday 'Upcoming Reviews' post for the actual dates, but here's our working list for next month:


Winter Wedding
A Winter Love Story
The Edge of Winter
The Fifth Day of Christmas
The Mistletoe Kiss
A Christmas Wish
Roses for Christmas
A Christmas Romance
A Christmas Proposal


That's right, it's all about Winter and Christmas. So, rifle through your bookshelves, crawl under your bed, look in your closet...wherever it is that you keep your collection. Dig out those holiday Neels and lets get cracking.

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Since it's Thanksgiving week here, Betty Keira and I decided to each do a novella instead of a full length novel. We're also bumping Thursday's review to Wednesday. Looking ahead to December, you can count on lots of Christmas themed titles making the review roster.


Monday, November 21st. An Ordinary Girl (can be found in 'The Engagement Effect' - a two-fer book with author Liz Fielding). Village fête, helpful Nanny, atrocious wedding Hat (worn by soon to be ex-fiancee).


Wednesday, November 23rd. Dearest Eulalia (found in 'Mistletoe Miracles' ). "Lally wasn't deceitful, but needs must when the devil drove..." RDD wields a mean spanner.