She has a whole household of petty criminals and orphans and outcasts whom she shelters because she is So Good. Slightly Married opens with our heroine, Eve, who seemed virtuous to a fault to me at the outset. Is it a must read romance novel? If you’re into marriage of convenience and historical accuracy. Two characters work through emotional turmoil and achieve an HEA. Reasons to read this title: Balogh is a favorite author for many, and particularly known for her marriages of convenience, of which this is an excellent example. She is… a 25 year old Welsh coal-miner’s daughter, independently wealthy through her mother’s family, and bereft of all immediate family. He is… a 30 year old ducal heir with an over-developed sense of honor and duty. In terms of research and plot, it was reminiscent of Heyer-but definitely not Heyer. Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award.My next Regency read is Mary Balogh’s Slightly Married, which came to my attention from NPR’s 2015 list of top 100 romances.
She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK.
Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK.
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