Lady Jane's Ribbons (Signet) [Paperback]

Sandra Heath (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 1 pages
• Publisher: Signet (February 3, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451147049
• ISBN-13: 978-0451147042
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,695,533 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Have you ever read a book and wished you could write one too? Have you ever followed someone else's characters and thought you would have them behave differently? Well, that's how I was. I read and read and read, especially historical fiction, but I secretly yearned to write a title of my own. Strangely, it took my three-year-old daughter's urgent admission to hospital with meningitis to finally get me going. She was so ill and I was so distracted, that after a while my father gave me a little portable typewriter 'to help take my mind off things'. By the time my daughter Sarah came out of hospital, well on the road to recovery, my first book was also well on the road.

I wrote and wrote and wrote, standing in the kitchen on one leg like a stork, with the typewriter on a work surface while my daughter played around my feet. My first ten books were medieval historicals set in England, and since then I have mostly written in the English Regency period - for which living in Britain is a definite advantage! I love romantic stories, and if I can weave history, traditions, myths, legends and sometimes Gothic elements into them, I'm happiest of all. These were the sorts of story I couldn't get enough of before I became a writer, and I'm glad to say my readers like them too.

Sandra Heath isn't my only pen name, for you'll also find me as Sandra Wilson, Jeannie Machin and Sarah Stanley. Some of these titles you'll recognize from before, but some you won't. Most of my medievals were written as Sandra Wilson, and as Sarah Stanley I've produced two new sensuous Regencies, STAR-CROSSED SUMMER and MIDWINTER MARRIAGE, which follow the same characters and should be read in the order of the titles. I hope to follow them with two more in the same series, but at the moment I have so much else to write that it may be a little while.

Sooo, over sixty-five books after my first ever title, I'm still wearing out keyboards, and loving every minute of it.

Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars An Exhilarating Read, November 24, 2009

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Flower Girl (MN, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lady Jane's Ribbons (Signet) (Paperback)

Wow! What an exciting racing scene! It was like watching NESCAR or Kentucky derby, but a stagecoach on paper. It was vividly written and clearly detailed of how such race would be prepared and relayed; it showed a lot of research done for just this scene. Well done.

I will not going in to the plot, for there are three reviewers have already done wonderful jobs on describing it (under the hardcover edition but with the author of Sandra Wilson). But I would like to explain why I gave only four stars for this almost a perfect book: The love tangle between the hero and heroine (especially Lady Jane) was a bit dragging--considering they were both very determined characters, they were definitely behaved wishy-washy, to the point it was annoying, I couldn't help to wish them to (especially her) to grow up...1/2 star deduction.

Another 1/2 star off for the front cover drawing--This paperback edition reflected none of the story plot, a far different depiction than that of the hardcover edition. Not only that, it even got hero's hair color wrong, which was suppose to be blond. A misfortune indeed (seemed Ms. Heath liked to use "indeed" a lot in this book).

With all that said, I would not want to deter anyone from buying this book. It is that good!