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Her best known series are the New York Times bestselling ‘Slightly’ sextet and ‘Simply’ quartet.

She has written more than seventy novels and almost thirty novellas since then. After 20 years of teaching, in 1988, she retired from teaching to pursue her dream to write full-time. Her first book, A Masked Deception, a Regency love story, was published in 1985. Mary Balogh started writing as a hobby, in the evenings. Besides writing, she also loves music, knitting, watching tennis and curling. She got married to the Canadian Robert Balogh and they had three children. After graduating from University in 1960s, she moved to Canada. All the things that would have been enjoyed at that time.

Simply Perfect by Mary Baloghĭetails about the picture: Scones, tea, clotted cream and homemade strawberry jam. The last 200+ pages made me like the book so much that I gave it a 4 stars. I think the novel is well written and I did enjoy it. I did like Joseph and, after he tells her his secret, their love story is wonderful. Despite he helping her a lot, she seems rude and unpleasant. Even though, her school has an anonymous benefactor that might be an aristocrat (it is).īecause Joseph is a marquess, then he must be horrible. Claudia is an annoying character, constantly talking about how great the charity girls are and how conceit are the aristocrats. If I didn’t know the style of Mary Balogh, I would have stopped reading it. The first 100 to 120 pages of the book I didn’t like her at all.

Can’t seem to grasp how something that simple escapes a 19th century headteacher. She should have known that the father of a marquess is a duke. See here the other books I’ve reviewed by her, including the ones in this series. The first three are Simply Unforgettable, Simply Love, and Simply Magic. The last book in the Simply Quartet Series is Simply Perfect by Mary Balogh.