Its nearly 50 years ago I was introduced to Georgette Heyer and Im so grateful to have found your books continuing my love of regency etc Thank You Sally
@@bertuccigirl I didn’t like Jessica at first either. But as she grew I like her more. I like this narrator as well. Sound like we both enjoyed the happy ending.
Jess sure does follow the adage .”Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” The love story of these two couples is so beautiful. It was also interesting learning more about the Festive season traditions of the time.
Thank you, Sally! Another wonderful tale that I thoroughly enjoyed. While reading some of the comments below I was struck by a lack of understanding. Unrequited love may illicit strange behavior as it is a painful predicament. Jessica attempts to overcome the rejection of her true love in a way any teenage heart might, in a sour grapes type of fashion. Funnily enough she is unknowingly rather provocative in her mischief. Who was Ellis thinking about when he went to sleep the night he found her drawing of a spider on his pillow? She unwittingly put herself in his thoughts as he was in hers. A sister's duty is not always executed perfectly even if intentions are pure. She learns a lot about understanding, matchmaking, interfering, misgivings, love, patience, and safely breaking a rule or two. Jessica is a caring, compassionate lady. Ellis is fortunate to realize the pain he inflicted and explains his ego at that time with apologies, as Jessica does the same. Life is beautifully wonderful and exasperatingly trying, as you will know, Sally. Did I intrepet correctly, or am I way off the mark? I guess there is no right answer, but there was back in the day when studying . . . 🌷🌷🌷 to you, you incredible novelist.
You absolutely interpreted it the way I was thinking when I wrote it! I have noticed that readers tend to dislike it when the female character has more growing to do than the male. I often wonder why... Thank you for your lovely comment!
Somehow I missed this story. It signified that I had read it, however I realized it didn’t remember it. To my surprise I had not read it. It only took a minute to rectify that mistake 😊. I wasn’t a great fan of Jessica at first. Thankfully she was surrounded by loving family and found her way through her tangle of emotions. As with all your stories the hero was steadfast and a happy ending was had by all. I only regret it took me so long to get to it. Many thanks. 😊
I listened to Jennie Goutet's A Yorkshire Carol last year (also available for free here on TH-cam) and when I started listening to this one, I realized they're loosely connected. So fun! She was the author that introduced me to the Regency romance genre and I am a fan! This story is brilliant. A bit heartbreaking at times, but of course it all works out well in the end.
I love hearing about the connections you've discovered between the stories! Jennie Goutet's work is wonderful, and I'm delighted to be part of your Regency romance journey. Thank you for your kind words about this story. Embracing the heartbreak and joy in these narratives is what makes them so special. Thrilled you enjoyed it, and here's to many more captivating reads! 📚💖
Truly enjoying this audiobook on a lonely Christmas Eve. Your writing is helping me feel cheerful and mer try this holiday season. A great break from the mind. I encourage you to not give up writing your wonderful stories and I thank you for them 🙂 God bless! Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄
I'm glad you enjoyed it! As for The Earl and His Lady, I actually don't have the production rights to the current version available. I'll have to have it professionally re-recorded as a new edition before I can upload it. :-(
Thank you for sharing. I can’t decide if Jessica is an immature problem-creating brat or a cowardly spiteful witch. If you’re “looking out for” a sibling, you need to seem to have more sense, not less.
First, let me say that I truly enjoy the books by Sally Britton, this one included. However, one of my pet peeves with authors is inconsistencies within a book or a series. This one ends with a glaring inconsistency that almost had me arguing with my computer screen. Earlier in the story, Mr. Webb enters the church to sit with his cousins in the family pew that is directly BEHIND the Nettle family pew. In chapter 14 Jessica enters the church to sit with her family in their pew that has somehow moved behind that of the Thackery family. I also found this book harder to follow due to the narrator. So far I have listened to books with three different narrators. Ms. Churchill is less able to distinguish between characters using her voice. This did detract from my enjoyment of listening to the book. I hope I haven't sounded too negative because I certainly do not mean to do so. To Sally Britton: I especially enjoy your author's notes at the end of each story. Thank you.
They all do. It's the only way I can generate an income from putting them on TH-cam. If you'd like to get the audiobook without ads, you can either subscribe to TH-cam Premium (no more ads on any videos) or you can purchase it from an audiobook retailer like Chirpbooks.com (it's usually discounted there) or Audible.
I am so grateful for your audio books! I just wish this narrator would read in her native (American?) accent and not a fake British one. It is a bit grating.
I understand not every narrator is for every person. This particular narrator is Canadian, trained in British accents - among others - professionally. It's a tall order to speak in a dialect not your own! And I'm so glad you're enjoying the audiobooks!
@@AuthorSallyBritton She is a great narrator, I simply prefer it when people speak their native accent ;) Anyway, I am glad and grateful for all your audiobooks, so sorry if my comment might be construed as rude.
@@corvuscorone7735 Oh, not at all! I just love over-sharing about the process of writing and audiobooks. I actually like your comments here and on other videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts!
I’m halfway through the book and I have to say Jessica is my least liked protagonist. However, I believe that is saying something for your writing. When an author can cause such strong feelings within their readers to the point of disliking that’s saying something. I’ve never liked the story plot of meddling in someone else’s lives, and the fact that it’s a sibling deciding what she thinks is best for her sister is grading at my sensibility. I also feel sorry for hero, so far he seems like a kicked puppy not knowing what he did wrong. I just hope Jessica can get out of her sisters way and let her make up her own mind, and I hope she ends up deserving her hero, because as of now, she does not deserve his regard.
Jessica is very much my least liked heroine. Jane Austen, when she wrote Emma, knew that a meddling character was unlikely to be loved. And she was right. No one - when her book was published - liked Emma the way they had loved Elizabeth. Flawed heroines are often grating to readers. I've often wondered what I could have done to make her even a little more likable.
Indeed, poor Ellis! And I know. Jessica is a bit of a pill. But she does some serious growing. She has a good heart. It just got hurt when she was too immature to know how to handle it.
Even in 2022 emotional intelligence doesn't necessarily mature with ones chronical age. Some people are very prone to hanging onto 'supposed' hurts & 'insults' and make more of them than there ever was originally making grudges continue as they 'love' to feel victimised.
My sister is listening to this and all I can think of is she needs to go sit in a corner for the rest of the story, no wonder he doesn't want to be in town. 😮💨
Hi Sally. I have been searching for blind hero hist roms . Another fav theme us a hist rom with cross dressing heroine, who will not be so easily caught out. Can you...... Please?
Okay, I have a book with a blind heroine planned for NEXT YEAR. I've been doing a LOT of research into how the visually impaired were treated and what their lives were like during the Regency. If you enjoy western romances, Sarah M. Eden has a great one called "Love Remains." The hero is IRISH, the heroine BRITISH, and they meet on his farm in the west. She's come to teach his brother, who has recently lost his vision, and she herself is blind. It's not on TH-cam, but you can get the audio for it on Audible, iTunes, and I'm pretty sure through Libby or your local library app. It's a favorite of mine! And the narrator does a brilliant job with the accents!
I have listened to many of your stories and loved them, Thank you. I must say though that Jessica is your first character that I did not like. Too, immature and silly to make me sympathetic to her feelings.
Its nearly 50 years ago I was introduced to Georgette Heyer and Im so grateful to have found your books continuing my love of regency etc Thank You Sally
Wow, thank you!
Thank you for creating a good read without cursing or to intimate romatic scenes. Good entertainment. Thank you!
Another lovely book. I didn’t like Jessica at first but I liked how she matured and apologized. Narrator was lovely too.
Jessica had a lot of growing to do. 🥰
@@bertuccigirl I didn’t like Jessica at first either. But as she grew I like her more. I like this narrator as well. Sound like we both enjoyed the happy ending.
You have done it again... I pulled an all-nighter to listen to Mistletoe Mismatch in its entirety. This seems to be becoming a habit. 😊😴
Same here
Ooohhh🥰🥰🥰🥰I love the background of the falling snow and fire pit going and it perfectly matches the book.
Thank you! I like to cast my TH-cam videos onto the TV, so it creates a nice ambience. 🥰
Jess sure does follow the adage .”Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.” The love story of these two couples is so beautiful.
It was also interesting learning more about the Festive season traditions of the time.
I loved it Sally! Thank you for sharing these on TH-cam.
You are so welcome!
Thank you, Sally! Another wonderful tale that I thoroughly enjoyed. While reading some of the comments below I was struck by a lack of understanding. Unrequited love may illicit strange behavior as it is a painful predicament. Jessica attempts to overcome the rejection of her true love in a way any teenage heart might, in a sour grapes type of fashion. Funnily enough she is unknowingly rather provocative in her mischief. Who was Ellis thinking about when he went to sleep the night he found her drawing of a spider on his pillow? She unwittingly put herself in his thoughts as he was in hers. A sister's duty is not always executed perfectly even if intentions are pure. She learns a lot about understanding, matchmaking, interfering, misgivings, love, patience, and safely breaking a rule or two. Jessica is a caring, compassionate lady. Ellis is fortunate to realize the pain he inflicted and explains his ego at that time with apologies, as Jessica does the same. Life is beautifully wonderful and exasperatingly trying, as you will know, Sally. Did I intrepet correctly, or am I way off the mark? I guess there is no right answer, but there was back in the day when studying . . .
🌷🌷🌷 to you, you incredible novelist.
You absolutely interpreted it the way I was thinking when I wrote it! I have noticed that readers tend to dislike it when the female character has more growing to do than the male. I often wonder why... Thank you for your lovely comment!
Another lovely story.
I have really enjoyed this book Thank You Sally
Another great story! I just kept listening while I crochet on a scarf! Seem fitting…lol! But such fun and so light hearted! Thanks Sally! ❤️📖📖❤️
You are so welcome! I'm glad it helps with the knitting. 🥰☃️
Thank you! I enjoy your books!
Glad you like them!
Lovely book and great narration
Somehow I missed this story. It signified that I had read it, however I realized it didn’t remember it. To my surprise I had not read it. It only took a minute to rectify that mistake 😊. I wasn’t a great fan of Jessica at first. Thankfully she was surrounded by loving family and found her way through her tangle of emotions. As with all your stories the hero was steadfast and a happy ending was had by all. I only regret it took me so long to get to it. Many thanks. 😊
I'm so glad you loved the story!
@ I must give credit to the lovely and talented storyteller. I truly enjoyed listening to her.
Thank you I absolutely enjoy listening to this audiobook
I'm so glad!
I listened to Jennie Goutet's A Yorkshire Carol last year (also available for free here on TH-cam) and when I started listening to this one, I realized they're loosely connected. So fun! She was the author that introduced me to the Regency romance genre and I am a fan! This story is brilliant. A bit heartbreaking at times, but of course it all works out well in the end.
I love hearing about the connections you've discovered between the stories! Jennie Goutet's work is wonderful, and I'm delighted to be part of your Regency romance journey. Thank you for your kind words about this story. Embracing the heartbreak and joy in these narratives is what makes them so special. Thrilled you enjoyed it, and here's to many more captivating reads! 📚💖
I love it, it was a fun story, thank you
Yay! It was fun to write about Christmas.
Truly enjoying this audiobook on a lonely Christmas Eve. Your writing is helping me feel cheerful and mer try this holiday season. A great break from the mind. I encourage you to not give up writing your wonderful stories and I thank you for them 🙂 God bless! Merry Christmas! 🎁🎄
I'm really glad my characters can keep you company. Thank you for your kind words. May you have a peaceful Christmas.
Thoroughly enjoying this!
Thank you. 🙂
The snow and fire are a lovely touch. I should get some hot chocolate to listen along with. 🎄☃️✨ Thank you! An early Christmas gift! 🎁 💝
I really love pretty visuals. ❤️❤️❤️ Glad you did too!
This was sooooo good! ❤❤❤
Thank you!
Beautiful !!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for this lovely book. Please upload The Earl and His Lady.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! As for The Earl and His Lady, I actually don't have the production rights to the current version available. I'll have to have it professionally re-recorded as a new edition before I can upload it. :-(
This is the best ❤️❤️
And I'm SO excited about it, too!
Thanks!
You are so very kind. Thank you!
Oh no! This is the last book! I've listened to every book you have posted on TH-cam! I'm so sad 😭😭😭
There are more to come! ;-) Promise!
Thank you for sharing.
I can’t decide if Jessica is an immature problem-creating brat or a cowardly spiteful witch. If you’re “looking out for” a sibling, you need to seem to have more sense, not less.
I can see how you would think that. She certainly has a lot of growing to do throughout the the story.
Immature and overdramatic, waging war against a guy for such a little slight. Speak of bearing a grudge ;)
I thought so as well. 🫤
First, let me say that I truly enjoy the books by Sally Britton, this one included. However, one of my pet peeves with authors is inconsistencies within a book or a series. This one ends with a glaring inconsistency that almost had me arguing with my computer screen. Earlier in the story, Mr. Webb enters the church to sit with his cousins in the family pew that is directly BEHIND the Nettle family pew. In chapter 14 Jessica enters the church to sit with her family in their pew that has somehow moved behind that of the Thackery family. I also found this book harder to follow due to the narrator. So far I have listened to books with three different narrators. Ms. Churchill is less able to distinguish between characters using her voice. This did detract from my enjoyment of listening to the book. I hope I haven't sounded too negative because I certainly do not mean to do so. To Sally Britton: I especially enjoy your author's notes at the end of each story. Thank you.
Love the story! Thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love to listen going to sleep but I dislike the ads that come on. Way too many. Not sure about on this particular one but the others have ads.
They all do. It's the only way I can generate an income from putting them on TH-cam. If you'd like to get the audiobook without ads, you can either subscribe to TH-cam Premium (no more ads on any videos) or you can purchase it from an audiobook retailer like Chirpbooks.com (it's usually discounted there) or Audible.
Listening 22 September 2022
I am so grateful for your audio books! I just wish this narrator would read in her native (American?) accent and not a fake British one. It is a bit grating.
I understand not every narrator is for every person. This particular narrator is Canadian, trained in British accents - among others - professionally. It's a tall order to speak in a dialect not your own! And I'm so glad you're enjoying the audiobooks!
@@AuthorSallyBritton She is a great narrator, I simply prefer it when people speak their native accent ;) Anyway, I am glad and grateful for all your audiobooks, so sorry if my comment might be construed as rude.
@@corvuscorone7735 Oh, not at all! I just love over-sharing about the process of writing and audiobooks. I actually like your comments here and on other videos. Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts!
I’m halfway through the book and I have to say Jessica is my least liked protagonist. However, I believe that is saying something for your writing. When an author can cause such strong feelings within their readers to the point of disliking that’s saying something. I’ve never liked the story plot of meddling in someone else’s lives, and the fact that it’s a sibling deciding what she thinks is best for her sister is grading at my sensibility. I also feel sorry for hero, so far he seems like a kicked puppy not knowing what he did wrong. I just hope Jessica can get out of her sisters way and let her make up her own mind, and I hope she ends up deserving her hero, because as of now, she does not deserve his regard.
Jessica is very much my least liked heroine. Jane Austen, when she wrote Emma, knew that a meddling character was unlikely to be loved. And she was right. No one - when her book was published - liked Emma the way they had loved Elizabeth. Flawed heroines are often grating to readers. I've often wondered what I could have done to make her even a little more likable.
I love your work, but I can’t say I like this protagonist’s (Jessica’s ) character much !
Poor Ellis!!! 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Indeed, poor Ellis! And I know. Jessica is a bit of a pill. But she does some serious growing. She has a good heart. It just got hurt when she was too immature to know how to handle it.
@@AuthorSallyBritton 😍😘🙏
Even in 2022 emotional intelligence doesn't necessarily mature with ones chronical age. Some people are very prone to hanging onto 'supposed' hurts & 'insults' and make more of them than there ever was originally making grudges continue as they 'love' to feel victimised.
My sister is listening to this and all I can think of is she needs to go sit in a corner for the rest of the story, no wonder he doesn't want to be in town. 😮💨
i enjoyed the book but had too much fluff.
Fluff isn't for everyone, but it's totally part of my style to have lots of warm fuzzies in Christmas books. :-)
❤
Hi Sally.
I have been searching for blind hero hist roms .
Another fav theme us a hist rom with cross dressing heroine, who will not be so easily caught out.
Can you......
Please?
Okay, I have a book with a blind heroine planned for NEXT YEAR. I've been doing a LOT of research into how the visually impaired were treated and what their lives were like during the Regency. If you enjoy western romances, Sarah M. Eden has a great one called "Love Remains." The hero is IRISH, the heroine BRITISH, and they meet on his farm in the west. She's come to teach his brother, who has recently lost his vision, and she herself is blind. It's not on TH-cam, but you can get the audio for it on Audible, iTunes, and I'm pretty sure through Libby or your local library app. It's a favorite of mine! And the narrator does a brilliant job with the accents!
@@AuthorSallyBritton I know you will do great justice for a heroine with a physical disability very admirably.
@@micheledix2616 Thank you for having that faith in me.
Thermometers in 1815? 🤔
Indeed. They were invented in the 1600's and people had them in their homes by the end of the 1700's. Did you look up the history of the device?
@@AuthorSallyBritton not yet; thanks for the info 👍
Bookmark..4.20
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I have listened to many of your stories and loved them, Thank you. I must say though that Jessica is your first character that I did not like. Too, immature and silly to make me sympathetic to her feelings.
She was marvelously fun to write, though. 😊