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Fiona Hill (1)

Author of Sweet's Folly

For other authors named Fiona Hill, see the disambiguation page.

Fiona Hill (1) has been aliased into Ellen Pall.

10 Works 199 Members 4 Reviews

Works by Fiona Hill

Works have been aliased into Ellen Pall.

Sweet's Folly (1977) 45 copies
The Country Gentleman (1987) 45 copies
The Stanbroke Girls (1981) 36 copies
The Autumn Rose (1978) 24 copies
The Love Child (1977) 19 copies
The Trellised Lane (1975) 8 copies
Love in a Major Key (1976) 7 copies
The Wedding Portrait (1975) 7 copies
The Practical Heart (1975) 5 copies
Fiona Hill Anthology (2014) 3 copies

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This was in a "Great fall reads" pile at the library and I was in the mood for something like this, what I call Austen-lite, along the lines of Georgette Heyer, but this wasn't even as good as her worst. It had a weak plot and poorly developed characters. I gave up about 1/3 of the way through.
 
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AngeH | 1 other review | Jan 2, 2020 |
Very enjoyable! Have reread more than once. It is always a treat.
 
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camelia23 | Jul 31, 2017 |
Slow "The Country Gentleman" byi Fiona Hill will always be my favorite.
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camelia23 | 1 other review | Jul 31, 2017 |
Witty Elizabeth and her younger, melodramatic sister Isabella Stanbroke have finally Come Out into regency England Society. Meanwhile, the Earl of Marchmont is being forced by his sensible spinster sister Emilia to find a wife and sire an heir before the year is out. His experiences in the army, and the mockery of his first love, make him wary, but Elizabeth's clever comebacks intrigue him. But the course of true love ne'er did run smooth. The Earl's current heir, the duplicitous rake Jeffery de Guere, decides to make trouble by seducing Isabella. And meanwhile, the Stanbroke girls' best friend is deeply in love with their older brother, and makes herself miserable about it.

And yet somehow, all of these romances add up to very little. The author flits from one couple to the next, never spending long enough with any one character. By the end of the book, I knew exactly as much about each character as I did within the first couple pages of their introduction. I didn't care at all about what happened to these cardboard cut-outs.

I'm tired of regencies that are just Austen novels mashed together, but without any of the scathing critiques of society or relatable characters that make Austen's novels so great. Blegh.
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