Tessa, 18, pretends she is secretly engaged to the long-absent son of the manor house, to get rid of a creepy suitor. Then the long-absent son, Max, 34, shows up, somehow learns about the lie, and “claims” her as his fiancée. Once again, as with The Third Uncle, Sara Seale plays this one really close […]

Not only does 19-year-old Gilly go to stay with a 30-something “uncle” she has never met, she also decides to masquerade as a 14-year-old gymslip-wearing schoolgirl. Written in 1964, you can imagine how this one progresses. The hero, Oliver “Uncle Noll” Blunt, is a schoolmaster at a minor public school in England. The heroine, Gilly […]

This is the second Sara Seale novel I’ve read (after The English Tutor). I was expecting much of the same again, and I got it. Seale is from the “vintage” Mills & Boon/Harlequin era, when heroines were frequently in their late teens and the heroes were usually much older, and everything is incredibly innocent. The […]