This Week in Reading The Duchess by Danielle Steele A few things that ended up in my grocery basket last week: hummus, coffee beans, cilantro, olive oil, and The Duchess by Danielle Steele. The basic plot is as follows: Angelique (tiny, perfect, deeply boring) is the daughter of a duke. When her father dies, British law decrees that the estate, fortune and title is passed only onto the male heirs, and Angelique is left with nothing. Her brothers, who hate her, exile from her life of privilege and she becomes a nanny for a wealthy family. After working for a year, a lecherous guest attempts to force himself on her, and when she bites him in self-defense, he tells her employers that she tried to seduce him. Fired with no reference, she is unable to find a respectable job in either England or France and instead opens the most elite brothel in all of Paris. After one of her clients gets murdered in the brothel she flees to New York. On the boat, she falls in love with an American man, who she agrees to marry. But when she meets his family she discovers that his father is actually one of her former clients, and had in fact proposed to her multiple times in Paris. She is forced to reveal her scandalous past to her fiancé who decides that he loves her anyways. They get married, have a baby, her husband dies, and she goes back to England and uses her brothel money to buy her father’s estate out from under her brother and evict him from the property just as he did to her all those years earlier. Sorry for spoiling it, but let’s be real, none of you are ever going to read this book.
literary diet pt. 3: forever a snob
literary diet pt. 3: forever a snob
literary diet pt. 3: forever a snob
This Week in Reading The Duchess by Danielle Steele A few things that ended up in my grocery basket last week: hummus, coffee beans, cilantro, olive oil, and The Duchess by Danielle Steele. The basic plot is as follows: Angelique (tiny, perfect, deeply boring) is the daughter of a duke. When her father dies, British law decrees that the estate, fortune and title is passed only onto the male heirs, and Angelique is left with nothing. Her brothers, who hate her, exile from her life of privilege and she becomes a nanny for a wealthy family. After working for a year, a lecherous guest attempts to force himself on her, and when she bites him in self-defense, he tells her employers that she tried to seduce him. Fired with no reference, she is unable to find a respectable job in either England or France and instead opens the most elite brothel in all of Paris. After one of her clients gets murdered in the brothel she flees to New York. On the boat, she falls in love with an American man, who she agrees to marry. But when she meets his family she discovers that his father is actually one of her former clients, and had in fact proposed to her multiple times in Paris. She is forced to reveal her scandalous past to her fiancé who decides that he loves her anyways. They get married, have a baby, her husband dies, and she goes back to England and uses her brothel money to buy her father’s estate out from under her brother and evict him from the property just as he did to her all those years earlier. Sorry for spoiling it, but let’s be real, none of you are ever going to read this book.