The Wood Nymph

Mary Balogh

Oct 2016 · Class Ebook Editions Ltd

About this ebook

The Wood Nymph is the digital reissue of a previously published and long out-of-print novel by New York Times Bestselling author Mary Balogh. Lady Helen Wade is not interested in living the proper life of a proper young lady. She prefers to slip away to her own place in the woods, where she can wear comfortable clothes and let her hair down and go barefoot while she dreams and paints and communes with nature. There she meets the rich and handsome William Mainwaring, newly arrived owner of the property upon which the woods stand. William, nursing a broken heart, is enchanted by the simple country girl whom he knows only as Nell, and returns a number of times in the hope of seeing her again. A brief, passionate affair ensues before guilt sends William abruptly away so that he can avoid further temptation to ruin her. When they meet again, Helen and William are both in London, and he knows her for who she is. How can he persuade her that he is not the heartless cad she believes him to be when he knows he behaved badly? And how can he persuade her that he loves both Nell and Helen—and that somehow he is worthy of her love?

Ratings and reviews

I loved her ebooks in the past but this one was incredibly frustrating. This book could have been about 60 pages, but it was longer due to the excruciatingly long and tedious inner monologues. Pages and pages of them before the reader gets to what's happening next in the story. I read this book in 3 hours simply because I scanned and actually skipped through many of the monologues towards the end. The main character is so insipid and spoiled that you have no sympathy for her. I simply wanted to slap her

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About the author

Author Bio: Mary Balogh was born and educated in Wales and now lives with her husband in Saskatchewan, Canada. She has written more than one hundred historical novels and novellas, more than thirty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. They include the Bedwyn saga, the Simply quartet, the Huxtable quintet, and the seven-part Survivors’ Club series.