Love and Marriage at Harpers: A heartwarming saga from bestseller Rosie Clarke (Welcome To Harpers Emporium, 2) Paperback – 3 Mar. 2020

Love this type of book, easy reading when I can’t sleep at night and when I just need something simple to read. Nice little story lines in this authors (Rosie Clarke) books.

I am really enjoying these Harper's books. I like that the characters and storyline is woven around the happenings at that time, women's sufferage, the titanic and of course whispers of the war to come. I'm looking forward to book 3. Thank you Rosie Clarke

I am looking forward to the next book of Harpers, so many twist and turns. And the happy fora and some sad.

I loved this story of heartbrake and happiness. It is so true to life. Showing no matter who you are or your background life can be a success if you work at it. I really enjoyed reading this.

Enjoyed the last whole book couldn’t wait for the next

The books in this series are, for the main part, enjoyable to read. However there is a lot of repetition of inane facts such as how many red scarves were sold etc. It also repeats things in lots of the pages, a bit like a pupil trying to write so many words in an essay.It does make you want to know what happens next so for that reason I'll carry on in the series

So the "girls" all have a story and there is of course love, romance and marriage. Also a hint of the bounder that I suspected in book one. It makes the books more interesting. Km enjoying them,better than just run of the mill romances as these have the background of the department store in them.I like all the characters and am looking forward to the next book. ☺️Highly recommended.

The Harper girl have settled now. Sally in now the Buyer for their department. Love is in the air for all the girls too. Sadness for Beth as her aunt is taken in by an evil con man with disastrous outcome.

There is always a little sadness but there was more happiness than sadness in this wonderful story. I’m hoping there is more to come. Thanks Rosie!

This is the second book in the series that I’ve read. Believable characters. Fun to read story.

The second book commences on 21 February 1913. Both Ben and Jenni Harper are still in NY and Sally hears from Jenni but nothing from Ben. Sally is still living in the hostel and she meets Mick the Manager of the pub across the road. A friend in the hostel is pregnant Sally finds a woman to do an abortion. After it happens she has a lot of bleeding. She asks Mick for help and he gets a friend to help the girl. Beth's aunt Helen has met a man called Gerald Green and they become close. Maggie is living with aunt Helen and Beth. When the aunt decides to marry Gerald the girls need to find somewhere to live. Sally and Rachel have a 2 bedroom apartment so Beth and Maggie move in with them. Jack Burrows meets Beth and is very keen on her. He is working on another shipping company from London to New York. He eventually gets a job as a manager of a pub. He asks Beth to marry him and she agrees. After the wedding, Beth moves in with Jack Burrows' house with Jack. Rachel meets a man called William Higgins in the Department store of Harpers and he asks her out. She finds out that he has put some inti-suffragrete in a major paper. She is disgusted and break up with him. Beth is concerned about Gerald treats Helen very badly. He thought that she owned her house, but she was only renting. He is definitely not happy. He gets her to do a life insurance, promising he will do one as well. Aunt Helen doesn't attend the wedding and Beth is very worried about he. After the wedding they go to Gerald and aunt Helen's house and they find aunt Helen dead at the bottom of the stairs. Helen is convinced that Gerald killed her. She is encouraged to get a private detective to look into Gerald's background. Ben returns to London and with a misunderstanding he thinks that Sally is involved with Mick, which was a misunderstanding. Ben tells Sally to come to Paris to have a look at the fashions there. On their weekend away he tells her about his wife who has just passed away. They get together and decide to marry around Christmas. They telegram Jenni and she rushes back to congratulate Sally and Ben, but tell them that she will marry her friend's husband so she can take care if them both given her friend died on the Titanic. That will be at Christmas. So Sally and Ben marry in September 1913. At the wedding Beth is pregnant. After the wedding Gerald has discovered that Beth is trying to looks at what Gerald's history. The PI has discovered that Gerald has had a number of wives and they are all been killed. Beth is attacked by Gerald when he broke into Jack's house. The police arrived and arrest him. But Beth has a miscarriage that night. Around that time Sally tells Ben that she is pregnant.

A cozy step back in time when the nations were still recovering from World War I and World War II was looming on the horizon.The women who worked at to perfume, make-up, and hat counters were called “Harpers’ girls” , and proud of it. The store had high expectations of them and took good care of its girls. The stories of their lives and quiet adventures bring smiles to the readers’ faces as they enjoy learning about the Harpers’ girls’ lives. I always look forward to new Rosie Clarke books, and read them with a smile on my face.

Romance mystery,murder mayhem and love conquering all wrapped in a English summer with glimpses of history blended in a enjoyable read