Harlequin Romance #3435: Dearest Mary Jane

By Betty Neels

Book Overview

Dearest Mary Jane by Betty Neels released on Oct 25, 1996 is available now for purchase.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373034350
• ISBN13: 9780373034352
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: Harlequin Books
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.2" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

Definitely 5 Stars!

A wonderful Cinderella love story--this novel has everything: delightly elderly neighbors, animals, nasty relatives, a darling plain Jane heroine, and a hero anyone would love. A favorite and one I will enjoy rereading! Highly recommended!

I couldn't put it down!

This has become another one of my Neel's favorites. I couldn't put it down. Our little heroine is trying very hard to make a living with her little tea shop and our handsome doctor hero can't stay away from her shop! It wasn't the scones! I couldn't wait to read when he would come again! I loved the way he takes her under his wing and falls deeply in love with her!

The Betty Neels book I've already reread more than 12 times...

...and am currently rereading yet again! I always gravitate to the books where the girl is "plain" but whose eyes are "startlingly lovely" as is Mary Jane. Favorite part in this particular story was where Mary Jane was brought to tears when she was being absolutely cossetted when she was ill -- the idea that she'd been independent for so long and had forgotten what it was like to be so gently fussed over always makes me weep, but the brilliance of it is that Betty Neels conveyed this much feeling in just a few lines. So many other authors try to wring emotion by writing page upon page of the heroine's introspection with little effect (for me, at least) -- but Betty always does it in one line, perhaps one phrase, sometimes even just a word. Beautifully written, and while i have more than 100 of Betty's books, i've probably already read Dearest Mary Jane the most even though i got mine relatively recently, just a year or so ago... am so lucky to have found it at a used book shop, thank you so much Betty Neels!

Another Betty Neels classic

This is a Betty Neels book that I would reread. And since her books are extremely similar and repetitive, that is high praise indeed. It's saying something that I can even tell this one apart from the other zillion books she's written. Nice read!

Come into Mary Jane's Tearoom and feed your soul.

COVER: 'The moment I set eyes on a handsome, rich man I shall marry him, not much hope of that happening to you, darling.'Felicity was the glamorous sister with a successful career as a model. Mary Jane was the stay-at-home with no talents to speak of and a face that never merited a second glance. So it was hardly surprising when Sir Thomas Latimer treated Mary Jane as no more than a future sister-in-law. If only she hadn't been fool enough to fall in love with him.....Another of Betty Neels' wonderful ashes to happiness stories! This is a real favorite of mine. The heroine, Mary Jane Seymour, spent her young adult life caring for the elderly aunt and uncle who had taken her in when she was orphaned. Though a rather loveless arrangement, her hard work managing their home and nursing them both lovingly until her uncle's final passing had put that same uncle in the frame of mind to leave her a small cottage in the village. This was especially providential as her uncle's heir was a nasty piece of work with an appropriately nasty wife! Enter Dr. Thomas Latimer, who is intrigued by Mary Jane from first sight, though it takes him some time to get around to realizing that she is the treasure he has been waiting all his life to find. Mary Jane sweats a hand to mouth existence out of the tearoom she runs in the large main room of the cottage. She is kind to all old people and animals and the entire town loves her. Her haughty sister, selfish to her toenails, deliciously plays the evil witch! :) You will be entranced throughout the lovely story and will be sorry to see Thomas and Mary Jane finally figure it all out, for even though it is what you have been longing for - their great happiness means the end of your sharing their lives. We can only hope that they appear once again in another of Betty's books. This story will delight first time readers and will greatly satisfy and warm her loyal fans.What a lovely lady Betty is... and what lovely ladies she paints for us.

Another wonderful book from my favorite romance book author.

Dearest Mary Jane is another wonderful book written by Betty Neels who is my favorite romance book author, I really enjoyed reading this book and liked the characters a guy named Thomas Latimer and a lady named Mary Jane Seymour and I really recommend it!