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. Someone to Care by Mary BaloghĪbout the author: Mary was born in Wales in 1944. The book is wonderful, light, romantic, heart-warming, just the thing if you like this sort of books at this time of year. Unlike most other romantic novels, both Viola and Marcel are in their 40s (he is 39, turns 40 in the book). They go together at the village fair, and, impulsively, gives in to his suggestion that they run away together for a while as a brief respite from their lives of duty and responsibility. On her way home alone from Bath, she meets an adventurous aristocrat at a country inn. See here the other books I’ve reviewed by her, including the ones in this series.Īfter the death of Humphrey Westcott, his wife discovers that their marriage was not legal, thus she becomes once more Viola Kingsley. They include the Bedwyn saga, the Simply quartet, the Huxtable quintet, the seven-part Survivors' Club series, and, most recently, the Westcott series, including Someone to Wed, Someone to Hold, and Someone to Love.Someone to Care by Mary Balogh is the forth novel in the Westcott Series, after Someone to Love, Someone to Hold, Someone to Wed, and followed by Someone to Trust, a book that should be published these days. She has written more than one hundred historical novels and novellas, more than thirty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. About the Author: Mary Balogh grew up in Wales and now lives with her husband, Robert, in Saskatchewan, Canada. When the two defy convention and run away together, they discover that the ties of respectability are not so easily severed, and pleasure can ensnare you when you least expect it. A prize that eluded him before, she is all the more irresistible to him now although he is surprised to discover that she is as eager now for the excitement he offers as he is himself.

Viola caught his eye when she herself was a young mother, but she evaded his seduction at the time.

Marcel Lamarr has been a notorious womanizer since the death of his wife nearly twenty years earlier. With her children grown and herself no longer part of the social whirl of the ton, she is uncertain where to look for happiness-until quite by accident her path crosses once again with that of the Marquess of Dorchester, Marcel Lamarr. Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of their titles and fortune-except for his onetime countess, Viola. **Instant New York Times Bestseller** Once the Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley throws all caution to the wind when adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat.