Faith Baldwin, we meet again. Quotable:

"Just agree with her and do as you please. It's a pretty good formula for dealing with any woman, at that."

Disappointingly average. Not enough mind boggling quotes. A reasonably suspenseful non romantic climax though, so bonus. ( )

As part of my effort to de-stress my life I have been reading vintage fiction, and especially books that would be called “Women’s Fiction”. I picked up this Faith Baldwin novel as part of my de-stressing program.

This is the story of Jonathan Kimber, a recently graduated medical doctor who moves to a small New England town. Jonathan quickly finds himself in between two of the town’s most eligible single women - Rose Ward, the sweet and wholesome high school teacher, and Sally Sutton, the sophisticated daughter of an ex-senator who runs the town. Several predictable events follow, and Jonathan ends up engaged to Rose.

Now, I wasn’t reading this book because it was highly intellectually stimulating, but – I thought the writing was awful. A lot of the dialogue sounds wooden and there is limited description of the characters, the places and the events. I just could not engage with this book. ( )