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Select ledenvoordeel Gratis verzending. Man to command and woman to obey; All else confusion Jake seems to think he's a classic romance alpha male and he does his best with it. He is a business man and very wealthy but even more clueless than a Dutch doctor when it comes to handling the woman in his life.
His early disappointment put him against love and fortunately the Other Women are fleeting and easily dismissed. He marries Annis, who is young, pretty and naive and in love with him not that she would ever tell him because He's decided she would make a good wife to him but in his alpha density does not recognise the beginnings of lurv. Instead he showers her with money and clothes and stuff She gets to travel to Portugal with him but suddenly all the travelling dries up and he's sending her home to her family while he scoots off on his business trips.
Of course it all ends up happily in Italy of all places. This is a little different to her usual pattern. One of the things I find interesting about Neels' enormous oeuvre is the way her heroes and heroines changed over time. Her heroines may have been dim about love, but they weren't stupid women. In the first couple of decades, her nurses were often ward sisters or staff nurses, unless they were too young to have achieved that position. Many of them were very pretty and of course completely without vanity about it , but some were plain, like Tabitha in Tabitha in Moonlight.
And the hero's inscrutability would occasionally lift to allow us to see his emotions think of Hugo in Fate is Remarkable, or Gerard in Stars Through the Mist. The rarity of those instances made them even more striking. In the books of the s on, however, her heroines became more and more mousy, uneducated, and unconfident. They really needed the heroes to rescue them from lives of poverty and oppression.
And the heroes were still godlike, but we learned so little about them beyond their good looks, great accomplishments, and wealth. Not all the books were like that, of course, but they were more prevalent than before. I just reread Only By Chance, and I was struck by how clunky the writing was. And then there's An Unlikely Romance, which I swear was written tongue-in-cheek or by someone else entirely. She takes her normal tropes to ludicrous extremes, as I read it.
She was a contemporary of Burchell's, I believe. Her books had young ingenue heroines and older, inscrutable and often tortured heroes. They were frequently set in Cornwall, Ireland, and similar Celtic fringe-y locations. They're quite interesting sociologically, although extremely dated. First, we all talk about the stoic Dutch doctors, but they weren't all stoic in the earlier years, and they stopped being Dutch in the later years.
Second, it's really striking how poor some of the Neels heroines were.
Abigail in Saturday's Child is literally counting pennies, and Dominic keeps forgetting to pay her. But in the s, you have a lot more heroines who are living hand to mouth. In Only By Chance the heroine has 50 pounds to her name when the hero rescues her and no education to speak of, and that book was written in ! Sunita, you've obviously read far more Neels novels than I have.
I'm sure you're right in your observations.
Even Barbara Cartland, who definitely seemed to have a formula that she stuck to though again, I'll admit to not having read a very high proportion of her novels did vary it from time to time. I've come across a Barbara Cartland romance which was a contemporary, for example, and she's known for her historicals. I wonder if a repetitive author is more likely to be described as a "comfort read".
Please review your cart. Amazon Web Services Goodreads Shopbop. The rarity of those instances made them even more striking. Betty created a unique setting for the early development of this book before returning her charcters to England and Holland. And, He is engaged to be married. Her characters are unexciting but sublimely comfortable, like the sheepskin slippers I have on right now.