The twist in the stories and that they are short reads made them perfect tales for when we are short on time but wish to read a splendid book.Īnne is looking for a husband in “Something New” and finds him just in time and with so many twists and many boorish guys later. Either the girls are looking for love, avoiding it, or being blissfully unaware that love is right by their side. I was pulled into the stories of these four friends and how they handle love. I read this book nonstop, putting aside the others I was reading since this was so absorbing. Each of the stories has a little something special to share and make us love this book. It follows the old rhyme and makes a delightful story collection from the four authors and I am a fan of Julia Quinn so I was eager to read this book. They are fast, sweet and good stories of love and its magical, mysterious ways. Julia Quinn finishes with the story of Beatrice Heywood, who never believed that the sixpence was anything but a tarnished old coin-until it led all of her friends to true love.This anthology is the story collection of four friends, young girls at the Madame Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence and keep it for luck and pass it along to each other when they are of marrying age. All the novellas are connected since they are stories of the four friends but they can be read as standalone novellas. In Laura Lee Guhrke’s story, unlucky Lady Elinor Daventry has her sixpence stolen from her and must convince the rake who pilfered the coin to return it in time for her own wedding.
Now she’ll need to borrow one to convince them she’s found her true love. But love finds her in the most unexpected of ways.Įlizabeth Boyle tells the tale of Cordelia Padley, who has invented a betrothed to keep her family from pestering her to wed.
In Stefanie Sloane’s unforgettable story, an ever-vigilant guardian decrees that Anne Brabourne must marry by her twenty-first birthday. Julia Quinn’s prologue introduces her heroine Beatrice Heywood and the premise for Four Weddings and a Sixpence. Beloved authors Julia Quinn, Elizabeth Boyle, Laura Lee Guhrke, and Stefanie Sloane deliver the stories of four friends from Madame Rochambeaux’s Gentle School for Girls who find an old sixpence in their bedchamber and decide that it will be the lucky coin for each of their weddings…
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