Adèle deLeeuw is one of the many maltshop and career romance writers of the era I collect (1930s to 1970s, which the emphases on the 1950s and 1960s). I just recently got an inexpensive copy of this book and was excited to have something new of hers to read, but I really didn't enjoy it. It was so heavy-handed -- I mean, I'm all for characters growing, but "Miss Fix-It" put her nose into so many people's problems that it got to be pretty ridiculous. On the other hand, I did like that she was a bit of a tomboy who enjoyed fixing physical things, and that her father was supportive in letting her start a small repair business, even though it drove her mother crazy. But overall, I was glad when the book ended, as I was a bit tired of it by then. ( )