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Tuesday's Child
First published 1993 · 234 pages
A cozy, tender Regency romance where a practical heroine's everyday kindness melts the heart of a cynical bachelor.
What it feels like
This traditional Regency romance offers a warm, steady reading experience anchored in domestic resilience and quiet compassion. The mood is distinctly cozy and hopeful, inviting the reader into a bustling, slightly chaotic household filled with waifs and boarders. Rather than sweeping ballrooms, the narrative finds its charm in everyday acts of survival and charity, contrasting the heroine's earnest, hardworking nature with the hero's world-weary cynicism. The prose is observant and gentle, focusing on the subtle neighborhood dynamics and the slow, satisfying unraveling of a confirmed bachelor's guarded heart. It is a perfect fit for readers who delight in character-driven historical romances where practical heroines and found families pave the way to tender, hard-won love.
- Mood
- cozy
- domestic
- tender
- hopeful
- Tone
- warm
- earnest
- romantic
- gently cynical
- Pace
- steady
- Themes
- found family · financial struggle · charity and compassion · melting a cynical heart · unexpected romance
- The writing
- Traditional and observant, focusing on domestic details and the subtle shifts of Regency social dynamics.
- The arc
- Moves from the burden of domestic struggle and cynical detachment to mutual intrigue, shared compassion, and romantic surrender.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love gentle, character-driven Regency romances where practical, kind-hearted heroines win over world-weary bachelors.
Content notes
- financial distress
- parental illness
About the book
The Simmons family has fallen on hard times. Now, with an ailing father and a menagerie of waifs and unfortunate souls to feed, Miss Felicia Simmons is forced to give piano lessons and rent rooms in her formidable home.
Across the street, Sir Christopher Wilde, newly returned from India, is intrigued by this graceful beauty who polishes brass door knockers and feeds the hungry from her doorstep. Cynical about the ton, he is only too willing to aid a lady in need, especially one who so unsettled the heart of such a confirmed bachelor as himself
Description from Open Library.
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