However not challenging enough for me in terms of the characters. However as a period piece, gives insight to the period and the area where the story is set. Jun 28, Kristin rated it liked it Shelves: Met my usual criteria of interest: Anyone looking for more action than a woman who "must" get married or an older sister hen-pecking a younger sister to take extreme measures, should look elsewhere.
A pleasant little slice of life story. Perhaps recommended for someone who likes an escape with Miss Read once in a while.
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I enjoyed it but as more of a pleasant than a "wow" read. Aug 20, Normalene rated it it was amazing. Set in a small town near Penzance, England in , this is a gentle mystery with not much violence, just the original dead body mystery. But Miss Effie Pengelly is fun to follow and the supporting characters are equally well-fleshed-out. Such a comedy of errors with eveyone except Effie and her beau hiding secrets, makes for lots of humor.
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I can see why this author is so popular. Sep 02, Alice rated it liked it Shelves: Mar 13, Vickie Tate rated it liked it.
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At first I found the plot a little slow but gradually the mystery of the dead man and my growing fondness for some of the characters kept me reading on. If you are in the mood for some well written, pleasant, historical escapism then this is just the job. A satisfying ending too!
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Jan 29, Sharon Baber rated it really liked it. But did any other readers keep thinking about how unlikely it was for Effie and Constable Dawes to have a long happy life together with WWI on the horizon? Ann Richmond rated it really liked it Sep 29, Keri rated it liked it Aug 14, Mary Lou rated it really liked it Feb 16, Debi Lodge rated it really liked it Nov 28, Gail Rezabek rated it really liked it Jul 08, Kay rated it it was ok Nov 06, Becky Cannon rated it liked it Jul 01, Teresa rated it liked it Nov 04, Kayla Quay rated it it was ok Jan 24, Suzanne Elyse rated it it was ok Jun 25, LInda L rated it really liked it Apr 11, Linda rated it liked it Sep 19, Digna A Roque rated it liked it Nov 28, Anne Zielinsk rated it liked it Jun 23, Carrie Mohanna rated it really liked it Jul 26, Linnea rated it it was amazing Nov 19, Kelsee rated it really liked it Jul 24, Loitering on the coastal path one evening, Verity witnesses something suspicious on the cliffs which causes her to fear the involvement of German spies.
There's only one person she can turn to: Effie Dawes, wife of the local police constable, now fighting overseas. Effie meanwhile has a tragedy of her own to face, while scandal will rock Verity's family - but the two unlikely friends remain determined in their efforts to discover what really happened on the cliffs. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles.
Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.
This eBook includes the full text of the novel plus the following additional content: Before We Were Yours: But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge—until strangers arrive in force. Aiken, South Carolina, present day. Born into wealth and privilege, Avery Stafford seems to have it all: It is impossible not to get swept up in this near-perfect novel. The magnificent saga continues It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave.
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Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America.
But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century.