Jan 20, 2003 11:54 AM
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(Updated Jan 20, 2003 11:54 AM)
This is a really easy to read book and is essentially one of the new wave romance books written by a new generation of authors.
It is a very good book to take to the beach or to while the afternoon away to. Jill Mansell is a particulary good example of this genre and always has characters that are believable and likeable. The book itself revolves around three main characters. There is Janey Sinclair who is a florist in the small Welsh seaside town of Trezale. Her husband, Alan, disappeared on her about two years before the book starts and she is left not knowing whether he is dead or alive and hence can not move on with her life. One morning her sister Maxine Vaughn appears in a wedding dress on her doorstep escorted by Tom the local policeman. She has literally just dumped her fiancé following a fancy dress party and is now there to stay. Since Janey has no room for her to stay and Maxine does not want to live with their mother Thea, her only option is to get a job. Word is going around the village that Guy Cassidy is looking for a new Nanny to look after his two children Josh and Ella. This would solve her problem as the job would provide her with a room but it also has the added bonus that Guy Cassidy is a famous, sexy and glamorous fashion photographer. Guy Cassidy moved to Trezale after the sudden death of his wife with his two young children Josh and Ella. Being a famous photographer has its drawbacks when you have women throwing themselves at you to be the next Mrs. Cassidy. This includes most of the nanny’s her been interviewing. Anyway being at his wits end and seeing that his children like Maxine he hires her even though she has no nannying criteria at all. As soon as Maxine settles in she begins a strategic campaign to seriously seduce Mr. Cassidy and her sister knows that once Maxine has set her mind to something there isn’t any limit to the lengths that she will go to get rid of the competition and get what she wants. Anyway if you want to know whether Maxine gets Guy Cassidy, whether Janeys husband Alan returns from the dead or whether Thea and Tom have a huge role in the story you will have to read the book. For a fairly easy to read book, the book has sufficient plots twists to make you keep turning the pages.
Although a romantic book at heart the book is filled with a lot of humour and Jill Mansell is very adept and bringing each characters individual personality to life throughout the books so that by the end of it you almost believe that they are real people. Most of her characters are not impossibly beautiful and live fairly normal if odd lives and so it is very easy to empathise with them. Jill Mansell has written a large number of books of which I have probably read most of them. All of them are very good but this one is one of the ones that really stands out.
