All Desires Known
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Publisher Description
When this book was first published by St Martin's Press in New Your and Headline in London, in 1993, it attracted the following notices:
* If lavish romantic page-turners set your heart pounding, [this book] could be just the thing to fire up a chilly winter's evening — Irish Voice
* A most entertaining romantic read [with] the added interest of its Irish setting. [Macdonald] is an acknowledged expert on the history of the last [=19th] century. It shows in the authentic nature of his writing about old Dublin and environs — Irish Press
* ... combines strong characters and a brisk narrative full of trenchant observations about life, love, and the eternal communications problems between the sexes — Publishers Weekly
* Talk-talk-talk and much of it bright and appealing — though, overall, the whole is a shade less lively than Macdonald's feisty-lady portraits or the gossipy Hell Hath No Fury — Kirkus
And, of the writer himself:
* He is every bit as bad as Dickens – Martin Seymour-Smith
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In order to maintain their position in the Dublin social scene, Honorable Lucinda and Dr. Michael Raven have spent far more than a young doctor could make--at least in Victorian Ireland. In this enjoyable period romance, one of Lucinda's old beaus suggests that his notorious money-lending uncle Ebenezer O'Dea may be able to help. The old invalid offers the Ravens a chance of a lifetime--to create a private hospital from a home on the aptly named Mount Venus. The condition for the grant is that O'Dea's private nurse, Diana Powers, must be chief nurse. But Powers is Michael's former love and the project architect, Philip de Renzi, is another of Lucinda's youthful loves. To the caldron add the suspicious Dr. and Mrs. Walshe, Uncle Ebenezer's spy, Birdie Kelly, and one shocking revelation--and soon everything comes to a full boil. Macdonald (a pseudonym under which M. R. O'Donnell has written A Woman Possessed and other novels) combines strong characters and brisk narrative full of trenchant observations about life, love and the eternal communication problems between the sexes.
