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    The Semi-Attached Couple
    The Semi-Attached Couple
    The Semi-Attached Couple
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    The Semi-Attached Couple

    By Emily Eden

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    The worst thing to happen to the season’s perfect couple: marriage

    When the young and gorgeous Helen Eskdale met the wealthy aristocrat Lord Teviot, everything clicked. This was a couple that was meant to be—the match of the year, if not the ages. But in the rush to the altar, there was no time for bride and groom to actually get to know each other. Now the question is: Can they keep their marriage from falling apart?

    The Semi-Attached Couple explores the upstairs-downstairs intrigues and comic misunderstandings central to the classic English romance with all the wit, style, and charm of a Jane Austen novel.

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Media
    Release dateSep 23, 2014
    ISBN9781497672284
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    Emily Eden

    Emily Eden (1797–1869) was an English author and poet. The daughter of a baron, she traveled to India as a young girl and later published a collection of letters from her time there. Her two novels, often favorably compared to the works of Jane Austen, are The Semi-Attached Couple and The Semi-Detached House.

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    • 4/5
      I thoroughly enjoyed this read, a book I found through Reflections review of the same book. It's very Austen-esque in tone and wit, but the story itself starts where most others leave off: with the wedding and the aftermath: two people who do not know each other at all, trying to be husband and wife. I knocked half a star off because I struggled quite a bit with the two main characters, Teviot and his bride Helen. The reader never meets them before the wedding as individuals and for most of the book one is left to know them only through their reactions to each other. This feels unsatisfactory, because the whole premise of the story is the misunderstandings that take place when two strangers marry and try to live with each other. Not having any idea of the normal character of each, I never quite knew who was being unreasonable or misreading signals. This isn't the case with the rest of the cast: each of the supporting characters thoroughly came alive for me, even down to Helen's maid, who had the fewest number of scenes. Helen and Teviot aren't the only ones having a hard time with romance and interpersonal relationships either. Helen and Teviot came together for me about 2/3s of the way through the book when circumstances force them apart and they have to deal directly with each other without interference; the story gets a bit sappy here, but by this time I was so invested in the outcome it didn't bother me. Jane Austen fans would enjoy this one quite a bit, I think, and I plan on recommending it to a couple of RL people I know who have worn out their copies of Austen's books and would enjoy something "new".
    • 4/5
      I don't know if the author intended to write in the style of Jane Austen, but if she did, she certainly succeeded. Centering around 2 families, the Douglas household and their neighbors, the Eskdales, we're treated to little intrigues, drama and humor.
    • 3/5
      So many typos and missing text made it challenging to follow at certain places in the story. Poor quality ebook. The story itself was pleasant.
    • 3/5
      This is a cute little story, about a bunch of rich people in Victorian England. There is Mr and Mrs Douglas and their two daughters, which family is not quite as rich as neighbors, Lord and Lady Eskdale, and their four children. Mrs Douglas is a sour grapes-sort of person, but it all comes out Happy in the end. Not a very realistic book, but still fairly enjoyable.
    • 5/5
      Victorian author Emily Eden admired Jane Austen--and it shows in her astute and witty prose which delighted this Janite--but she begins her book where Jane’s stories end, with a wedding. Lovely Helen has all the ingredients for 19th century happiness. She’s beloved by her large well-off family and she’s about to marry wealthy Lord Teviot, who charmed her when they danced together. But being good Victorians they haven’t actually spent much time alone, and when she is whisked away after the ceremony she suddenly realises she doesn’t know or understand Teviot very well and she’s decidedly homesick, damaging her relationship with her proper but ardent new husband. Among other things the story becomes a post-wedding courtship with lots of twists and turns, ups and downs. Like Austen’s novels The Semi-attached Couple is filled with amusing characters and there are at least three romances that develop during the course of the plot. It took me a little while to get all the names and characters straight--there is a Lord Beaufort and a Colonel Beaufort for instance--but somewhere along the way this book became one I couldn’t put down. First I simply found it divertingly funny, with characters to laugh at and enjoy loving or hating, but as the story went on it also became exciting, then moving, until finally at the end it was deeply satisfying.

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