It's Rumoured in the Village / Except My Love / Strangers May Marry

It's Rumoured in the Village It was a surprise to Naomi when she found herself in charge of a young niece and a large house in a charming Dorsetshire village, and without much money to keep either of them. She was grateful for the willing help and advice of the villagers, but when they started to plan her love life as well, she began to wonder if things had not gone a little to far! Except My Love When Erica married her boss she was under no illusions as to the nature of the marriage. She knew that for Oliver it was merely one of convenience, that he would never have considered her had he not lost the woman he really loved. All the same, Erica did love him, and she couldn’t help hoping that with time and patience her marriage might turn into something deeper and more satisfying than a business arrangement. But Erica had made just one mistake. She had managed to conceal from Oliver the fact that just before the wedding his old love had come back and tried to get in touch with him. But how could she prevent him discovering how she had deceived him and would he ever forgive her if and when he did? Strangers May Marry Valerie wasn't in a very happy situation — not fit enough to work, and clearly unwanted by the relatives with whom she had been living. But in impetuously accepting the proposal of a man she scarcely knew, wasn't she in danger of jumping out of the frying pan into the fire?

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.