Nothing Ventured, Anne Douglas
Nothing Ventured, Anne Douglas
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Nothing Ventured

Author: Anne Douglas

Narrator: Lesley Mackie

Unabridged: 9 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Soundings

Published: 06/01/2017

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

1925. Attractive and strong-willed 23-year-old Isla Scott leaves her job as a nurse in Edinburgh to return to her hometown of Edgemuir and take up a vacancy at Dr Lorne’s fashionable spa, where she is reunited with her handsome brother, Boyd. Revelling in her new role and being close to Boyd, all seems well for Isla and the Scott family. But the siblings soon find that romance threatens to cloud their future. Boyd is bowled over by pretty new waitress Trina Morris, but is she playing games with his affections? Meanwhile, the rest of the spa is falling under the spell of a new doctor, Grant Revie . . . but will Isla?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anne on January 13, 2016

O.K., I admit it. I'm a sucker for old-fashioned English/Scottish romantic fiction, the kind where the lovers spend much time only "kissing and caressing". Almost Downton-Abby-ish in its clothes and hairstyles, to say nothing of ethics, morals and the roles of women and employees, it's still a simpl......more

Goodreads review by Bathsheba on August 25, 2018

All a bit nearly done up and predictable really. Romance very typical of the time, women giving up there careers for marriage, annoyed me really. No wonder why woman today have trouble having careers. Old ideas die hard.......more