- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Zebra - Kensington (Oct 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0821772899
- ISBN-13: 978-0821772898
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 68 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,421,224 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable Christmas storyline; wonderful characters,
By A Customer
This review is from: Matchmakers Christmas (Paperback)
Donna Simpson is one of my favorite authors and she does not disappoint me in this wonderful Christmas tale. Eighty year old Lady Elizabeth Bournard tries her hands at matchmaking with unusual results. The romances she engineers (even one for her companion) are all wonderful but not exactly what she was expecting. There is much soul searching and actually some heartbreak involving the couples invited for a winter holiday. We are kept guessing what poor Beatrice Copland (Lady Bournard's companion) has done to make her skittish around the handsome Sir David Chappell. She somehow knew him during her "season" twenty years before and the mystery is not revealed for quite a while. I loved that Beatrice and David were older than the normal Regency couple. A nice touch that Donna Simpson has done in other books. The other characters are equally delightful. I really enjoyed the "colonial" (Canadian) Verity. What an unusual woman! And Lady Bournard is wonderful too despite her crotchety ways. The story lagged at some points. I just wanted everyone to resolve their disagreements and find the love they deserved. Eventually the proper happy ending was obtained - not a light hearted Christmas tale but definitely worth reading.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Corrected publication date,
By A Customer
This review is from: Matchmakers Christmas (Paperback)
I would just like to point out that the publication date is undoubtedly NOT October of 1902!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Exactly right for the holidays,
By Susan Smith (A small rural village in the English Midlands) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Matchmakers Christmas (Paperback)
Congratulations to Donna Simpson for writing such a lovely Christmas read. A Matchmaker's Christmas combines four love stories well told against a holiday house party in the bleak north Yorkshire countryside. And, well done for getting the descriptions of the countryside, the weather and the travelling conditions accurately done!An elderly widow, the comtesse Bournard, conspires to bring five people to her home for Christmas with the admitted goal of matchmaking. A sixth person, Lord Vaughan, conveniently appears, seeking refuge from a winter storm. The Rev Mark Rowland, a serious, handsome and sweet man hankers after Lady Silvia, the daughter of a haughty earl although Lady Bournard wants to attach him to Verity Allen, a boisterous but friendly girl from the wilds of Canada. Watching over all of this with increasing concern is the comtesse's companion of more than a decade, Beatrice Copland. She is meant to be matched to Sir David Chappell, the protege of the comtesse. Of course, Lady Bournard's plans go askew but, in this novel, it is not a comedic pen the author uses. Rather, there is a lot of introspection and saddness which contributes to misunderstandings and some initial unhappiness for the three couples. In the end (although not until a full year later) everything comes right. I enjoyed this book and each couple was well drawn. It was particularly gratifying that Sir David and Beatrice are middle aged yet they, too, enjoy that frisson we all feel when we find true love and meet our soul mates. And the fourth love story? It is, of course, Lady Bournard, married at 40 to a French emigre and widowed for 20 years. Still in love with him, still yearning for him and waiting to be with him again. Highly recommended; not frothy but an extremely entertaining and satisfying read which highlights the true meaning of the sprirt of the Christmas season - love, giving, sacrifice and second chances.
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