Lady Be Good
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4.5 • 188 Ratings
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
“[A] sexy and whimsical modern fairy tale.”
—Greensboro News & Record
“The always-funny Susan Elizabeth Phillips…has the heat turned up all the way for this one.”
—Detroit Free Press
The only four-time recipient of the Romance Writer’s of America’s prestigious Favorite Book of the Year Award, the incomparable Susan Elizabeth Phillips is one of America’s most beloved authors—and Lady Be Good is one of the perennial New York Times bestseller’s hottest, funniest, and most delightfully wild romance novels. The uproarious tale of a proper English headmistress hell-bent on destroying her reputation and a disgraced Texas athlete playboy determined to salvage his own, Lady Be Good is funny, sexy, and irrefutable proof of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s assertion that “Next to Tracy and Hepburn, no one does romantic comedy better than Susan Elizabeth Phillips.”
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Flying from England to Texas, Lady Emma Wells-Finch meets world-famous pro golfer Kenny Traveler. She assumes that he's a gigolo and decides that he's just the man to relieve her of her virginity in order to get the stuffy, oafish Duke of Beddington out of her hair. Kenny's need to avoid scandal to save his career conflicts with Emma's need to invent scandal to free her from her English admirer. The results are hilarious. In a secondary plot line that mirrors Lady Emma's predicament with the duke, Kenny's seemingly flighty sister, Torrie--as beautiful as Kenny is handsome--is being forced by her father to marry geek Dexter O'Conner. Dexter and Lady Emma have their work cut out for them, for Kenny and Torrie's respective childhoods have left them scarred and incapable of adult relationships. Some outstanding secondary characters join this foursome, including those from Phillips's earlier Fancy Pants. Her Texas settings and sportsmen as heroes continue to shine, and her playful homage to the peculiarities of wealthy Texas women and small towns is dead-on. Phillips's newest is well written, funny, sexy and altogether satisfying.
Customer Reviews
Splendidly funny!
Over the course of 20 years, I’ve read a lot of novels from Julia Quinn to Nora Roberts to Christina Dodd, Barbara Delinsky and many more. From Susan Elizabeth novel, I was introduced to her when I read This Heart of Mine. It was some 10 years ago. Anyway, I read the paperback version. I have this tendency to remember the characters and sort of hold on to that memory, not so much the title though. It got stuck in my mind that the only thing left to do is look for it. While browsing the ibooks store, I found This Heart of Mine, bought it and read it again. Like the first time, I enjoyed it. So here I am, searching for another novel from this awesome author! She didn’t disappoint. If anything, I was thoroughly entertained by the humor and banter weaved into each of her characters. Thank you!
Lady Be Good
Loved it!!! Her books are great!!! Can't believe I just recently discovered this author!!
OMG Let it End
Overall it was an okay book, but it never ended. It went on and on...