Never Say Goodbye (Best of Betty Neels) [Mass Market Paperback]

Betty Neels (Author)

Book Description

Series: Best of Betty Neels | Publication Date: April 11, 2006

To keep her small family together Isobel managed to make ends meet -- just -- by doing private nursing jobs. Isobel shouldn't have had time to fall in love with Dr Thomas Winters, but she did. He wasn't likely to be interested in Isobel, when the lovely Ella Stokes was around, so she ought to try and forget him. Easier said than done!

--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin (April 11, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373470622
• ISBN-13: 978-0373470624
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,477,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Romance, May 16, 2006

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This review is from: Never Say Goodbye (Best of Betty Neels) (Mass Market Paperback)

Isobel Barrington comes from a small but loving family and works as a private nurse to supplement her mother's pension and help her younger brother through school. She is hired by Dr. Thomas Winters to help bring his old Nanny to England from Poland. Isobel is happy to take the job, the pay is good, Nanny is a delight, and she has a chance to do a little sightseeing. Isobel's content with her lot in life until she realizes that she's fallen in love with Thomas. She feels that she has no chance to win his heart, she's rather plain and he has rich beautiful girlfriend named Ella.

"Never Say Goodbye" is Betty Neel's at her best. She changes her usual plot a bit - Thomas is English, not Dutch - but otherwise she uses one of my favorite formulas in this book - poor, plain, but gentle girl from a nice family falls in love with a rich, handsome doctor. Neels throws in a beautiful but mean-hearted girlfriend for the doctor and a family crisis for Isobel as well. Nothing new here, but Betty Neels had a special gift of being able to turn a simple romance into a heartwarming love story. Although there is no doubt who will win Thomas's heart, readers will root for Isobel the whole way, hating Ella.

This is a good book to read when you wish to escape from the real world for a couple of hours.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "'Never say goodbye,' he said softly...", February 19, 2007

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Louisiana Lady (Louisiana USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Never Say Goodbye (Betty Neels Large Print) (Hardcover)

Book Description: HER FAMILY HAD TO COME FIRST. To keep her small family together Isobel Barrington managed to make ends meet -- just! -- by doing private nursing jobs. Her mother had only a small pension and her younger brother had to be educated somehow. Isobel shouldn't have had time to fall in love with Dr. Thomas Winters, but she did. He wasn't likely to be interested in Isobel, when the lovely Ella Stokes was around, so she ought to try to forget him. Easier said than done!

Excerpt: "'You're too young.' ...'I'm twenty-five -- a sensible age, I should have thought.' ...'Women at any age are not sensible,' he observed bitterly. ...'That was the nursing agency,' he said shortly. 'They wanted to know if I was satisfied with you for the the job I had in mind, and when I said I'd expected someone older and more experienced they regretted that there was positively no one else on their books." He cast her an exasperated look. 'I intend to leave England in two days' time, and there's no opportunity of finding someone else in forty-eight hours...I shall have to take you.' ...'You won't regret it,' she assured him briskly. ..."

*****He wanted a nurse, preferably "a sensible, experienced nurse with a placid disposition." She wasn't at all the type of nurse he intended to take with him; he wanted her services only until such time as a suitable companion for his old nanny could be found. This doctor good-looking, rich, British doctor was not interested in developing a a relationship, especially a personal relationship, with the plain, hard-working, British nurse. A wonderful story any Neels fan is sure to enjoy.