That Would Be A Fairy Tale

by Amanda Grange

Book Overview

A sparkling historical romance by bestselling author Amanda Grange, in a new, tenth anniversary edition Note: Previously published under the title of Marriage at the Manor When poverty forces Cicely... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479310832
• ISBN13: 9781479310838
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Makes a change

I enjoyed this book. I usually read Regencies, but this made a change.

a great romance

Marriage at the Manor has all the hallmarks of a great romance. There's love, humor and a good cast of characters, led by a very likeable hero and heroine in Cicely and Alex. I laughed out loud when Alex knocked Cicely off her bicycle in the opening scenes, something I don't often do, and from there on it was an enjoyable ride throughout the book.The story starts with Cicely meeting Alex when she is forced to sell her beloved home. He's a money-grubbing cit, or so she thinks, but there is more to Alex than that, it just takes Cicely some time to find it out.Like all Amanda Grange novels, there's an absorbing plot as well as a romance. Here it takes the form of a robbery. Someone is stealing jewellery from wealthy house party guests, and Alex's sister - working as a maid as the family was poor at the time - was unlucky enough to be framed for a previous robbery. Now that Alex has made a fortune he intends to hold his own house party - which is why he needed to buy a posh country home - so that he can track down the thief and restore his sister's reputation.Sparks fly between Cicely and Alex as poverty forces Cicely to take a job as Alex's secretary, and the Edwardian setting adds novelty to their sparring. Cicely's father collected boneshakers, and the two of them try to ride them with hilarious results. Humor brings them together, and a love rival, in the form of Eugenie, drives them apart. The Edwardian setting then takes them to Marienbad, a spa in what would now be, I guess, Austria or Germany, as they follow the thief abroad. I really loved his part of the book. It made a really unusual setting, and I could almost smell the pine trees. In the end they catch the thief (with the help of one of my favourite minor characters, Cicely's cousin, Sophie)closing what is a very enjoyable book.Amanda Grange usually writes Regencies - my favourite is The Silverton Scandal - but this is just as good.

a great romance

Marriage at the Manor has all the hallmarks of a great romance. There's love, humour and a good cast of characters, led by a very likeable hero and heroine in Cicely and Alex. I laughed out loud when Alex knocked Cicely off her bicycle in the opening scenes, something I don't often do, and from there on it was an enjoyable ride throughout the book.The story starts with Cicely meeting Alex when she is forced to sell her beloved home. He's a money-grubbing cit, or so she think, but there is more to Alex than that, it just takes Cicely some time to find it out.Like all Amanda Grange novels, there's an absorbing plot as well as a romance. Here it takes the form of a robbery. Someone is stealing jewellery from wealthy house party guests, and Alex's sister - working as a maid as the family was poor at the time - was unlucky enough to be framed for a previous robbery. Now that Alex has made a fortune he intends to hold his own house party - which is why he needed to buy a posh country home - so that he can track down the thief and restore his sister's reputation.Sparks fly between Cicely and Alex as poverty forces Cicely to take a job as Alex's secretary, and the Edwardian setting adds novelty to their sparring. Cicely's father collected boneshakers, and the two of them try to ride them with hilarious results. Humour brings them together, and a love rival, in the form of Eugenie, drives them apart. The Edwardian setting then takes them to Marienbad, a spa in what would now be, I guess, Austria or Germany, as they follow the thief abroad. I really loved his part of the book. It made a really unusual setting, and I could almost smell the pine trees. In the end they catch the thief (with the help of one of my favourite minor characters, Cicely's cousin, Sophie)closing what is a very enjoyable book.Amanda Grange usually writes Regencies - my favourite is The Silverton Scandal - but this is just as good.