The Undoing of Daisy Edwards
Of all the places to meet a woman Dominic
Harrington meets Daisy Edwards in a police station. After a night of drinking
and injecting cocaine our heroine finds herself in the last place she thought
she would be.
Daisy had lost her husband during the Great
War, she now finds herself hiding from herself and everyone around her trying
to find something to make herself feel alive again. Nothing does, she wants so
much but feels guilty that she has lived and her husband is gone.
Dominic too feels guilt over the loss of
his brother in the same war, now a Lord and heir to a stately home but refusing
to use the house or title as they belonged to his brother. Not him, never him
he is sad and lonely. Believing his mother blames him for being alive whilst
her first born son is dead. Domanic too feels that his sister is against him
and as such they don’t have a great relationship when in truth he has shut his
family out.
Daisy only portrays Tragic characters and I
loved the references to Shakespeare and Dickens in the novel. I did have to
laugh at contraception being called a preservative something I had not heard
before. This is a first person story of loss and trying to rebuild lives after
the horrors of the war. Both our hero and heroine are fighting against
themselves and denying the attraction they feel for each other. The love scenes
are hot and sensual as I have come to expect from marguerites books.
The 1920’s is an era I actually no little
about and this was the first book I have read set in that era. Through all the
heartache of the war to the rebuilding of loves and lives our two characters
find it hard to let go of their pasts and fordge a future together. Taking one
step at a time, I was taken through many emotions whilst reading this from
sadness, to happiness and then wanting to shout at the characters for being so
silly and wanting them to give love a chance. They were too young to give up on
life.
5 STARS
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