![]() ![]() ![]() Impulsively, he proposes, and with so me hesitation, she accepts. He encounters Sally, a widow on the verge of the poor house, at a hotel dining room where she is having one last cup of tea. In order to escape their nagging, he agrees to find a bride. He never thought he would survive the war, and has spent so much time on a ship that he missed much of life’s experiences– including marrying, which his two older and widowed sisters are insisting he do. Admiral Sir Charles Bright is recently retired from the Royal Navy after 35 years of service, at forty-five. ![]() Our two main characters are a bit unusual. With Carla Kelly’s new book, The Admiral’s Penniless Bride, though, I could read it and enjoy it without other people’s opinions in my head– and enjoy it, I did– very, very much so. I did manage to get my hands on the much acclaimed Beau Crusoe, which I enjoyed but which was a victim of its own praises– I expected so much, that a very good story wasn’t quite as good as I expected. ![]() Carla Kelly has long been a favorite among AAR staffers and readers, but a relatively hard to find one if you do your primary reading out of libraries and used book stores, as I do. ![]()
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