![]() ![]() I'm going to save the next one, The Surgeon's Lady, for a little while longer. Her characters just want good lives and love, and gently, tentatively, with humor, they find what they need. In a veritable sea of Duke This and Earl That, she writes about ordinary people who fall in love. If you’ve read Kelly before, you know her books stand out. Miraculous social elevation doesn't happen. The Surgeons Lady Carla Kelly Buy This Book This is a very lucky year for Carla Kelly fans: two new books to enjoy, after years of more occasional publishing. ![]() They're not nobility, they don't have magical powers. Like all Kelly novels, it focuses on regular people. ![]() Kelly includes vivid detail of the hardship that resulted for both the navy and for the people of the shore town. It's set in Portsmouth during the time when England's navy was involved in an endless, wearing sea blockade because of the Napoleonic Wars in the Peninsula. It's the story of a practical young woman, the illegitimate daughter of a viscount, who's trying to survive in hard times and a lonely ship captain, loyal and dedicated, who always thought marriage was a bad idea for Naval officers at war. ![]() OracneCarla Kelly, Marrying the Captain: Carla Kelly is one of my favorite romance writers-in the top two of my all-time list for the genre-so atfer saving this one for a while, I savored it, or tried to I ended up finishing it in a single day. ![]()
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