By Marion ChesneyCall it escapist literature*, but sometimes it's a relief to give one's mind a break from all the bad news and read a book that's fun. Marion Chesney (pseudonym of the prolific M. C. Beaton) has provided not one but a series of six Traveling Matchmaker novels.
Emily Goes to Exeter is the first in a series about Hannah Pym, a spinster housekeeper who has just inherited a large sum of money from a grateful employer. She decides to retire and travel the countryside by coach, an unimaginable luxury in her working days. When her coach becomes snowbound at an inn, she not only manages to get all the passengers working together (against their wills in some cases) to prepare meals, but also creates matches between a lawyer and a widow as well as a traveler named Emily and her ex-fiancee.
These novels are short, and each takes Hannah and a romance-bound young passenger to another destination (e.g., Penelope Goes to Portsmouth, Belinda Goes to Bath, etc). Watch for lots of fun and a happy ending!
*Escape Literature - Fiction that is designed to take the reader away from real life and provide pleasure, usually with a story that is easy to follow and pleasant to read. Interpretive Literature, on the other hand, is designed to take the reader deeper into the real world and provoke thought, broadening our awareness of life.
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