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The Misremembered Man (Tailorstown, Bk 1)
The Misremembered Man - Tailorstown, Bk 1 Author:Christina McKenna Jamie McCloone's early years in a grim, cruel orphanage have left him wary of people and anxious of change. Now in his early forties, he has no dreams of changing his lonely life as a bachelor farmer until his kind-hearted neighbours, Patrick and Rose, decide he is in need of a wife. — Lydia couldn't be more different to Jamie. Rector'... more »;s daughter and proper schoolteacher, she still lives at home, looking after her aged and demanding mother. She dreams constantly of changing her spinsterly fate, but has no idea how to - until a friend suggests she puts an ad in the Lonely Hearts column of the Mid-Ulster Vindicator.
The result is a meeting of absolute opposites: farmer Jamie with his cavalier attitude to personal hygiene and his ignorance of the fairer sex, and Lydia Devine, for whom everything must be folded neatly and laid in its proper place - including her ideal man.« less
I laughed, smiled, cried...followed the journey by rickety car, bicycle and yellow pointy shoes. A story of love finding you in a very untraditional way...but take note it is not a romance.