Reading this week: Betty Neels

I'm on a Betty Neels blitz at the moment and have read two lovely stories,  A Suitable Match and The Doctor's Girl. They are both gentle stories of overcoming the odds. I bought them, and I'm not sure I've ever read them before. Thank goodness for re-releases and going back to old favourites. Her stories are very much the same but there's a niceness to them which is a contrast to going down the social media rabbit holes and getting fixated on the news. Politics, Covid and all the bad stuff. What's better for you? Getting depressed wasting time on the internet or reading a book that is going to make you feel better, perhaps in ways you don't even realise.

From what I've read of Betty Neels, she began writing romance novels when she retired from nursing and for thirty years wrote, until her death when she was in her early nineties.

Wow. I hope that's me, writing until I'm in my nineties. On the plus side, I haven't waited until retirement (what is that?). I've been a writer all my life and that desire came from reading lots of novels, but especially romance novels. 

Here's to the next Betty!

~ Maddie



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