Jessica Steele
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- 1933-05-09
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- female
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- UK (birth)
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- Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK
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- Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England, UK (birth)
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- Jessica Steele was born on May 9, 1933 in the elegant Warwickshire town of Royal Leamington Spa. She has two super brothers, Colin and George, and a lovely sister, Elizabeth. She was a delicate child and missed a lot of school. In fact, she left school at aged 14, when she was diagnosed as having tuberculosis. At 16, she started work as a junior clerk. In 1967, Jessica married with her husband, Peter and within a very short space of time they had moved from her hometown to the lovely area where they now live. Their house is built into the side of a hill, and has beautiful views over more hills and valleys. Her brothers and her sister are very close and she has plenty of nephews and nieces to make up for the fact that she and her husband have no children of their own. Both she and her husband are more than a little dog-oriented, and their current dog is a Staffordshire bull terrier named Florence. Florence is gorgeous. She loves everybody but, since she is 40 pounds of dynamite and would hurl her boisterous self at everyone she meets - given half a chance - she has to be restrained (as much as possible). She is fun.
Her husband spurred Jessica on to her writing career, giving her every support while she did what she considers her five-year apprenticeship (the rejection years) while learning how to write. She published her first books in 1979. Jessica has tried using a typewriter, but it just doesn't work for her. She is much happier writing in longhand, and in actual fact has a dozen or so fountain pens filled and ready to go at the start of any one session. A friend has a secretarial agency and, after deciphering Jessica's writing, returns an immaculately typed manuscript. To gain authentic background for her books, she has travelled and researched in Greece, Russia, Egypt, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Hong Kong, China and Japan.
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Reading this now however I find it intensely amusing. I'm not sure what Steele's intentions were originally with the novel, but to me it was a really humorous book overall. Also Brooke and Stephanie's relationship is rather like my sister and I's in that I do so much for her and she kind of throws back in my face because I'm not doing what she wants, just what she needs.
This is a bit different then a lot of Harlequins from the time period, or what I remember of them at least, in that I felt so bad for the guy. Jourdain puts up with A LOT from Brooke. And I do mean a lot. The man couldn't say good morning to her without her screeching that his flirtatious french ways were not something she wanted. He attempts to compliment her on how a shirt looks and she accuses him of seducing her out of her clothing.
His attempt at making her understand his actions/words/feelings at the end were made awkward by Brooke's insistence that he must be lying and trying to con her into his bed. Never mind the man all but admitted to being so smitten with her he couldn't work--obviously that only meant he wanted a quick shag. So imagine my surprise that after ten pages of making Jourdain beg for her to love him like he loves her, Brooke realizes that he must be telling the truth. I don't know what brought on this epiphany, I'm not sure I want to know, but at least Jourdain finally got his girl.
Just wish I felt happy for him and not apprehensive about how the future would be if all Brooke thought of his overtures was 'VILE SEDUCER OF WOMEN'.… (meer)