![]() She’s desperate but also picky, hoping to find a husband who will let her have some independence. Anne has to marry by the age of twenty-one or else be sent to live in the country by her eccentric relatives. This brings us to the first novella, Something New, by Stefanie Sloan. Since Anne has to marry before she turns twenty-one, she gets to use it first, with the stipulation that if she does get married, she will pass the sixpence to Cordelia who will pass it on to Ellie who will pass it on to the intensely skeptical Bea. The girls (Bea, Cordelia, Ellie, and Anne) decide to keep it for good luck when they recall the rhyme “Something borrowed, something blue, something old, and something new, and a sixpence in her shoe.” This sixpence, they decide, will bring each of them a husband. ![]() ![]() In 1817, four girls who are attending Madame Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls find a sixpence in the mattress. The novellas are held together by a framing story written by Julia Quinn. Five minutes after reading each story I had already forgotten all about it, but I remembered my enjoyment while reading it. ![]() ![]() It’s a collection of four novellas, all Regency romances, all remarkably angst-free. Four Weddings and a Sixpence is super comforting. ![]()
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