narrated by Maureen Cavanaugh
Unabridged audio (4:28)
2012
256 pgs.
Adult Regency Romance
Finished 6/3/2020
Goodreads rating: 3.69 - 2994 ratings
My rating: 2.5
Setting: London, England, turn of the century? (can't remember)
First line/s: "Miss Olivia Blakesley watched as her youngest sister was married and thought, 'That does it, old girl. You are officially on the shelf.' "
My comments: Very cute and very stupid. Haven't read any like this before, a short regency romance. A 25-year-old "spinster" decides that she will spend the rest of her life unmarried, but wants to learn about the stuff that she'll miss. So she makes an arrangement with an older, for-some-reason unmarried, very nice gentleman. And of course they fall in love. But she is stupidly stubborn and refuses to marry him until the very last few minutes of the book. Refreshingly, didn't get steamy. Read with a very snotty upper crust kind of British accent.
Goodreads synopsis: Olivia Blakesley, self-proclaimed spinster extraordinaire, is quite happy with her life. She has her studies and her duties, what need does she have of a husband? With five sisters married she knows the reality does not live up to the promise, and does not need to personally experiment with the state to know she would be ill-suited to it. However, she finds herself envious of at least one aspect of marriage. But to experience the physical side of marriage, one doesn't need a husband, all one needs is the right man...
Nathaniel Jenkins knows his duty. Marry a young girl from a respectable family and father an heir, no matter how cold the endless parade of suitable girls leaves him. But a shocking proposal from a scholarly spinster leaves him wondering if unsuitable is just what he's looking for. Can he convince his spinster that marriage is the greatest experiment of all?
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