Book description
Christine Summers is a pretty young teacher in a country school in the
1930s and the apple of more than one man's eye . Christine has no
intention of sacrificing her independence to marry anyone, least of all
Charley Noonan, the rough-tongued young farmer who has been pursuing her
for years. When she meets lonely widower Alan Kelso, however, Christine
finds herself falling in love. Alan has also caught the eye of pony
breeder Beatty McCall. Passionate, experienced and unscrupulous, Beatty
wants is willing to offer him more, it seems, than Christine can ever
hope to match. But sometimes all it takes to fall in love is dancing to
the Paradise Waltz ...Rich in tangled affections and intriguing
characters, in THE PARADISE WALTZ Jessica Stirling captures all the pain
and humour of life a small, gossip-ridden village in the time between
two world wars when wireless and the cinema were changing everyone's
ideas about romance.
