Over the course of one spring and summer a great deal happened. She did well, and I found that I liked Katherine and her family – her sensible step-son, and her adorable twins – very much. She missed her husband terribly, but she knew that he would have wanted her to carry on and to make a happy home for their family, and she knew that was the very best thing for her to do with her life. Katherine Wentworth was a young widow, living in Edinburgh in the most genteel kind of poverty, and bringing up a teenage stepson and two young twins. This isn’t her best book it isn’t a book that would stand up to very much scrutiny but it is mid 20th century romantic fiction done rather well. When you need a book to be a security blanket, as I did this week, you could do well to turn to the work of D E Stevenson. I always enjoy being up in the Highlands with her for long walks, good plain food, friendly locals, and changeable weather. I love DES' writing style and the love she has for Scotland. I enjoyed meeting Peter very much and DES slipped him in there very cleverly. It did make for some good character development for Simon, though, and I'm curious to read the sequel to see how it plays out. Miss Buncle's Book, Vittoria Cottage, The Four Graces). I know this was crucial to the plot, but it wasn't as cozy to read about as what I consider a usual DES (e.g. The Limbourne section (especially the Treasure Hunt, yikes!) felt (mildly) sinister. Her relationship with Alec is also a bit troubling. Zilla is quite an interesting, complex, and rather sad character in some ways. There was more psychological realism in it than in a normal DES. This DES felt almost Rosamunde Pilcher-like to me. It's refreshing to read about a stepmother who becomes a loving mother to a stepson. I particularly loved her relationship with her 16-year-old stepson Simon and how close they are to each other. I love Katherine as a character and her voice. Her father was the lighthouse engineer David Alan Stevenson, first cousin to the author Robert Louis Stevenson.ģ.5 for this. Stevenson (1892–1973), Dorothy Emily Peploe (married name) was a Scottish author of more than 40 light romantic novels. "Mistress of the light novel" - The Timesĭ. And it is only then that she begins to realise that independence is not as important as love. Colours look brighter, food tastes delicious, and every day is a new pleasure.
Katherine is worn out with worries and difficulties and scarcely knows which way to turn but a restful holiday in the Scottish Highlands restores her zest for living. What would Gerald have wanted for his son? The situation is further complicated by a group of young people who rebel against the boredom and frustrations of modern life and find an outlet for their pent-up feelings in mischief. In the case of Simon the task is not easy, for an unexpected letter offers him a very different sort of life with wide horizons. She has known what it is to be loved and cherished, and now that she has lost her Gerald, all she wants is freedom and independence to bring up Gerald’s children as he would have liked. Katherine has married at nineteen and has had four years of happiness before her beloved Gerald dies and she is left to bring up a stepson, Simon, and her own little twins on a very inadequate income.
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