The transformation is interesting because we see how, doubting all her previous beliefs, all the rules, all the concepts, she starts digging inside her own soul and finding out many things that are not right and that she doesn’t like at all.īut it’s not easy to discard the very foundation of her upbringing. She feels that her old life as a lady is not hers anymore – she’s absolutely right! She’s refusing all the attempts to make her feel better: from her sister, from Anna, from her grandmother and her whole family. She starts like a shrew: sequestering herself in her grandmother’s house, but as time passes she start feeling restless. She went through a true transformation! From this:Īnd what a story that transformation was!!! So when I started this book I couldn’t believe that I would end liking her! But that exactly what happened!

I almost rejoiced with all that befell her! That’s how much she was odious! She was so full of herself! She thought she was better than anybody else. In the previous book Camille was soooo odious and I disliked her very, very much! She treated Anna like dirt under her slippered feet. Balogh managed to make me like Camille!!! Dalton Awards for her bestselling novels, as well as a Romantic Times Lifetime Achievement Award. She has won seven Waldenbooks Awards and two B. She has won numerous awards, including Bestselling Historical of the Year from the Borders Group, and her novel Simply Magic was a finalist in the Quill Awards. She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then, including the New York Times bestselling 'Slightly' sextet and 'Simply' quartet. In 1988, she retired from teaching after 20 years to pursue her dream to write full-time. Her first book, a Regency love story, was published in 1985 as A Masked Deception under her married name. Mary Balogh started writing in the evenings as a hobby. She also enjoys watching tennis and curling. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, music and knitting. She married her Canadian husband, Robert Balogh, and had three children, Jacqueline, Christopher and Sian. After graduating from university, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada, to teach high school English, on a two-year teaching contract in 1967. Mary Jenkins was born in 1944 in Swansea, Wales, UK.

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