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Flirtation & Folly

A Season in London

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Flirtation & Folly

Auteur(s): Elizabeth Rasche
Narrateur(s): Lillian Rachel
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Marianne Mowbrey is a responsible country rector’s daughter who longs for the novelty and excitement she reads about in novels. When her crusty Aunt Harriet agrees to give her a season in London, Marianne vows to dazzle the world, win a husband, and never go home again. But the Londoners who determine social success are inclined to pass over plain Marianne in favor of her beautiful, reckless younger sister.

In a world of ambition, fashion, flattery, and deceit, how can Marianne stay true to her real self - when she is not even sure what that real self is?

©2020 Elizabeth Rasche (P)2021 Quills & Quartos Publishing Fiction Fiction de genre Historique Romance Romance régence Récits initiatiques
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Some people may find this story inspiring. Think of Whitney Houston’s song “Greatest Love of All” and you have the basis of this novel. It is less about the love between a man and a woman and more about a woman learning who she is and what is really important.

In the beginning, Marianne is full of fantasies about what a season in London may bring and faces one disappointment after another. At times it is even a challenge to like her very much as her goals are immature and self-absorbed. But she learns and she grows and that process is gratifying to witness.

It is kept a bit of a mystery to us which gentleman is going to be her love interest, which was an element I actually quite liked as we can usually tell within the first couple of chapters where that romantic tension is going to come from in these kinds of books. I liked the way it continued to be unclear until—for me—the last 2 1/2 hours of the listen. I HOPED it would be one gentleman in particular but really couldn’t be sure.

In the end, once all is resolved, I will say I was mildly disappointed in the lack of a real love story, but I am probably a bit shallow. I wanted that slow burn, the intensity of many romance novels. But when you keep the perspective of Marianne in mind all the way through, it is just exactly as it should be for her. She gets her love in the end, and perhaps more importantly, she begins a life that will satisfy her deepest yearnings.

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It nicely wove the charters together and left me wanting more. Lots of personal growth in charters and always interesting family dynamics.

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