Lessons in Loving

by Peter McAra

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"Then he read it, slowly, one word at a time. And I knew that it would be right to have children with you. To live together at Kenilworth till we're old. Till we die, even. And for our children, and their children, to grow up loving the spread of those beautiful blue hills. As you do, As I do. "


The book cover and description got my attention, and held it until I realized how much of a romance this book was.
Kate Courtney is 18, a newly qualified teacher that applied for the job of governess in rural Australia. When I started this book, I was expecting her to be teaching a young boy, while his father was too busy taking care of the farm to pay much attention to him, causing Kate to become a sort of mother figure to the child. This was not what happened.
Instead Kate was to be a governess to Tom who was a grown man who needed refining in the proper way to talk, in order to be able to marry a respectable English woman like his mother had wanted for him before she passed away.

Slowly as Kate teaches him how to talk proper she falls for him, and he without realizing it falls for her. It doesn’t become obvious that they like each other until the English woman he was, wanting to Marry came to Australia and he saw her true colors, and why her father wanted her to marry him.

I feel I would have liked this book more if I had realized it was a romance, and if Tom had realized a little sooner how awful his bride to be truly was.