![]() ![]() Bemoaned in her circle of high-achieving friends, the Darling boys are the archetype of spoiled foppishness, irresponsibility and devastating magnetism, used to lure sensible girls into their web of short-term bliss. As a grateful surrogate daughter, Cassie dotes on sweet Phoebe and promises to find proper matches for her sons, but she’s without Phoebe’s blind loyalty and sees Ben and Fritz for what they are. As a small girl, she spent lonely days peeping through the hedge to the Darling’s back garden (her own parents were icy and indifferent) until the Darlings brought her into their happy fold. But Phoebe wants better for her boys, so calls on Cassie to help. In fact, they’ve charmed the knickers off of half the girls in London. ![]() Ben Darling, unemployed pianist, and Fritz Darling, unemployed actor, are handsome, charming men. Phoebe has a last dying wish-to see her two sons happily wed. Engaging, witty fare, Saunders’s novel of matchmaking gone awry (think modern-day Emma) is smart fiction masquerading as a light summer read. ![]()
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