Sarah Mallory
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- Hammond, Melinda
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- England
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- Bristol, England, UK
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- Born in Bristol, England, UK, she grew up telling stories. She would make up adventures to relate to her school friends during break times and lunch hours, and she was once caught scribbling a story instead of listening to the French lesson. As a punishment, her teacher made her translate the story into French! She left school at sixteen and worked in offices as varied as stockbrokers, marine engineers, insurance brokers, biscuit manufacturers and even a quarrying company.
She married at nineteen, but continued to work until the birth of her first child. It was at that time that she decided to try her hand at her first love—writing, and shortly after the birth of her daughter she had her first book, Fortune's Lady, published under the pen name of Melinda Hammond. This was quickly followed by two more historical novels, Summer Charade and Autumn Bride, but with the birth of her twin sons the demands of family life meant that writing had to take a backseat for a few years. A compulsive scribbler, she never stopped writing and continued to work on research for her novels, experimenting with contemporary scenarios as well as writing pantomimes for her children's school. In 1989 the family moved to an isolated Pennine farmhouse in West Yorkshire, not far from Brontë country, where the family expanded to include a dog, two gerbils and a dozen chickens. The growing family needed funding and she went back to work full-time. The writing had to be put on hold.
Then, in March 2000, Sarah stepped off a curb and landed in hospital with one ankle broken and one badly sprained. This laid her up on a sofa for twelve weeks and gave her the time she needed to finish a novel. She wrote as Melinda Hammond and Maid of Honour was published the same year. Since then she has never looked back. She's published more than a dozen books under this pen name and has won the Reviewers' Choice Award in 2005 from Singletitles.com for Dance for a Diamond. Her novel Gentlemen in Question was a Historical Novel Society Editors' Choice Title in November 2006. In 2012 her novel The Dangerous Lord Darrington won the Love Story of the Year by the Romantic Novelists' Association. She is now concentrating on writing romantic historical adventures for Mills & Boon.
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With the exception of the father and his lecherous friend, the characters weren't unsympathetic. Believing what society believed is only to be expected of Lucasta's mother and sister, just as Lucasta not believing is to be expected since she is socially awkward.
I was surprised by the characterization of the father. His borderline cruel disregard for his eldest daughter's marital safety (if not happiness) was shocking. His reasons were basic and understandable, but his intentions and plans were criminal.
The romance follows predictable patterns, but Viscount Kennington is a happy-go-lucky sort of guy and not above poking fun at himself and society, and Lucasta is thankfully not given to melodramatic speeches about how envious she is over her younger sister's beauty. She is content to being less attractive since she was given brains and much prefers them to the obligations her sister must deal with.
The only complaint I have is towards the beginning. Events unfold that force Lucasta to run away from home, but she is woefully unprepared and the resulting encounter with Viscount Kennington is very contrived and unbelievable.
Overall LUCASTA is a quick enjoyable Regency romance sure to make most readers of the genre quite happy.… (lisätietoja)