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Title: Charming, but less spark
Review: The eponymous hero is in the countryside to fix up a tottering inherited mansion for his pet charity, housing orphans. The heroine is a woman of good birth who has fallen upon hard times and is employed in trying to rein in the excesses of a young, spoiled beauty. There is not much spark between them, but this is a charming book with a host of secondary characters, from a young cousin who is bedazzled by the gorgeous Tiffany, to another cousin who wants to wheedle a stake in a horse-selling business from the great Sir Waldo, to all the younger people in the neighborhood and their seniors. There isn't a complicated plot and the humor is gentle rather than uproarious. This is a low-key, enjoyable book, well-suited for lazy summertime reading.
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