The Improper Governess

by Carola Dunn

Book Overview

Entranced by lovely actress Lissa Findlay, Lord Ashe offers her a position as a governess to his nephew after she rejects his amorous advances, and as a drama involving money, scandal, and love unfolds, Lord Ashe loses his heart.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821758896
• ISBN13: 9780821758892
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

YOU ADMIRE LISSA & YOUR HEART GOES OUT TO ALL 3 BOYS

I THOUGHT I HAD FINALLY BURNT OUT ON REGENCY ENGLAND PERIOD STORIES UNTIL I READ THIS BOOK.IT HAD EVERYTHING; NAUGHTINESS, GOODNESS, INTEGRITY, LOVE, MYSTERY, IT MADE ME MAD, SAD AND BROUGHT FORTH LAUGHTER AS WELL. LORD ASHE IS MASCULINE AS WELL AS SENSITIVE, LISSA IS IN A NEEDFUL SITUATION BUT IS STRONG AND COURAGEOUS, HER YOUNG BROTHERS ARE TRUE LITTLE GENTLEMEN WHO BECOME A POSITIVE INFLUENCE ON HER YOUNG CHARGE. ALL THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE STRONG AND I FOUND MYSELF ROUTING FOR THEM. IF YOU LIKE THIS PERIOD YOU'LL ENJOY THE BOOK! PAM W. from LEXINGTON

A gently amusing and heartwarming love story

Another of the genre in which the hero or heroine are not what they seem. Lord Ashe has his eye on Lissa Findlay (not Lisa), an opera dancer, and invites her to a private dinner so that he can offer her _carte blanche_. He is piqued - and appalled - to discover that she has accepted only because she is starving and has seized the opportunity to get some food for her brothers and herself.His conscience pricked, Ashe arranges a job for Lissa as governess to his nephew and ward, thus providing a home for her and her brothers. This appears to be a satisfactory solution, except that Lissa's past leads members of Ashe's family to leap to other conclusions as to why he has installed her in his household. Ashe himself eventually comes to the conclusion, after (one would have thought) more than enough hints from members of the Findlay family *and* the obvious fact that Lissa is well educated, that she is not what she pretends to be.Well written, amusing in many parts, and ! Dunn manages to convey in a subtle manner Ashe and Lissa's gradual falling in love. I found the ending and tidying up of loose ends somewhat abrupt, which was disappointing, but otherwise a gently enjoyable book.