Country Wives

by Rebecca Shaw

Book Overview

Welcome back to Barleybridge, the picture-postcard English village where everybody knows their neighbors . . . Kate Howard is still working as the receptionist at the Barleybridge Veterinary Hospital,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400098211
• ISBN13: 9781400098217
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Three Rivers Press (CA)
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Good read

This second novel in the Barleybridge series features a practice without the engaging character of Scott, who has returned to Australia. A replacement, Dan, is hired, but his ways conflict with some of the already established members of the veterinary hospital. He also comes into conflict with some prominent clients with his outspoken ways. Additionally, Kate must deal with the arrival of her mother, who she has not seen since she was a child, on the scene, and finds herself torn between the mother she always wondered about and the step mother who raised her. Quote: "One by one Kate opened them and read all about her dad's tender love for her mum in every line: a pining and a longing which revealed so poignantly a depth of feeling she never knew he was capable of. Poor Dad! Loving her like that. How did he survive her going?" This book loses some of the luster of the first because we no longer have the romance between Kate and Scott to focus on. There is a mysterious love affair between the new veterinarian, Dan, and the American woman he loved and lost, but this story line is simply not as engaging. The clients are still interesting, but this second novel is not as engrossing as the first.

Good read

This second novel in the Barleybridge series features a practice without the engaging character of Scott, who has returned to Australia. A replacement, Dan, is hired, but his ways conflict with some of the already established members of the veterinary hospital. He also comes into conflict with some prominent clients with his outspoken ways. Additionally, Kate must deal with the arrival of her mother, who she has not seen since she was a child, on the scene, and finds herself torn between the mother she always wondered about and the step mother who raised her. Quote: "One by one Kate opened them and read all about her dad's tender love for her mum in every line: a pining and a longing which revealed so poignantly a depth of feeling she never knew he was capable of. Poor Dad! Loving her like that. How did he survive her going?" Grade: B Review: This book loses some of the luster of the first because we no longer have the romance between Kate and Scott to focus on. There is a mysterious love affair between the new veterinarian, Dan, and the American woman he loved and lost, but this story line is simply not as engaging. The clients are still interesting, but this second novel is not as engrossing as the first.