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REVIEWED BY DEBS CARR
Sarah Gordon, the youngest of five daughters, was happily planning to marry her childhood sweetheart, Ian, believing that she had her life nicely mapped out. Until, that is, her outspoken mother persuaded her to sleep with him before their wedding and Sarah discovered that maybe he wasn’t the man of her dreams after all. Having finished with him and watched as Ian quickly married someone else Sarah was left with a box full of unused wedding memorabilia, her job as a teacher at the local primary school and a home with her argumentative parents on their farm.
Sarah’s four sisters don’t understand how she can live such a quiet, celibate life and have more than made up for her abstinence by making the most of being single while they had the chance. Now Daisy is getting married and pleads with Sarah to help her plan everything. Sarah makes a visit to the local Farmers’ Club to invite them to the wedding en masse and meets TV star and real life lord, Rupert Glass. The attraction is mutual, but Rupert hasn’t got his bad boy reputation without reason, and when Byronesque Rupert, who lives in the game keeper’s cottage on the edge of his family’s estate, is sent to cover Daisy’s wedding for his TV programme, Sarah, as one of two bridesmaids, has no option but to talk to him.
She is thrilled when Rupert asks her out on a date, but before their evening begins her father almost manages to ruins everything for her. It’s not a great start and Sarah fears that it doesn’t bode well for the future. There is a lot she doesn’t know about Rupert and she seems surrounded by people who are only happy to fill her in on the gory details.
If that wasn’t enough to contend with, one of her other sisters, Helen, has something on her mind and a secret she refuses to share with anyone. Her sister Daisy and new husband take over the farm and as soon as they’re married and Sarah has to move with her parents to their newly built bungalow. There is far less room at her new home and she is soon reminded how difficult living with her parents can be.
I enjoyed the budding romance between the Sarah and Rupert and their problems caused by interference from others, especially her parents and sisters. I would have preferred to read a little less about Ian and his pregnant wife, Alexandra, but that could simply be my personal taste.
An enjoyable 7/10