For those who haven't read any of Balogh's other books, these extra characters might feel rather overwhelming.Īnother character from Simply Unforgettable also appears: Portia Hunt, the jilted potential fiancée of Lucius Marshall. This story also includes a roll-call of almost every character Mary Balogh has included in her last dozen or so novels, including all the Bedwyns, the women and their husbands from the other books in the Simply series, Neville and Lily from One Night for Love and Lauren and Viscount Ravensberg from A Summer to Remember. Initially appearing to be rather a wastrel aristocrat who just lives for parties and entertainments, she soon realizes thatĪ surprise lies behind his handsome and charming exterior - an unexpected female in his life, one he has to keep away from society.Ĭlaudia and the Marquess, Joseph, find themselves thrown together a great deal. At the start of this story, Claudia finds herself showing the Marquess of Attingsborough around the school before travelling with him to London in order to drop off two pupils at their new positions and to visit her man of business.Ĭlaudia soon finds that there's more to the Marquess of Attingsoborough than she first assumed. Simply Perfect takes as its heroine Miss Claudia Martin herself, an on-the-shelf spinster whose life is bound up in the school and whose antipathy towards dukes and other members of the aristocracy is well known.
This story is an excellent completion to Mary Balogh's 'Simply' series, which follows the lives of four schoolteachers from Miss Martin's School for Girls in Bath.
Book review: Mary Balogh's *Simply Perfect*Įast meets West across time and tradition as three young American women and their Indian immigrant mothers take first steps toward true sisterhood, shattering secrets and sharing joy and tears in Mary Balogh's
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