Dolby’s manuscript for the book was the runner-up in the Comedy Women in Print awards, and there are plenty of fun scenes, the writing’s witty, but there’s plenty to think about too.

It started to bog down for me - mostly vignettes about life in the west 1880-1900 style, so I've loaned it to Larry to read while I indulge in some mysteries and one I borrowed from L's son-in-law. There are ladies who don’t like what they are made for, the cleaning and the domestic business, the caring and the mothering. Violet, though, is persistent and has soon managed to convince him that she can interview prospective female clients and even carry out investigative work for him. She’s intelligent, with an inquiring mind and a caustic tongue, and tries valiantly to hold her own against the opposite sex, more often than not succeeding.No Life for a Lady by Hannah Dolby is a delightful historical romance about a spirited woman who is ahead of her time. Because Violet is a woman who knows her own mind – and her mind is on her mother, who went missing 10 years earlier, vanishing from Hastings Pier without a trace. I sadly didn't find this quirky or clever, nor did I find the story to be "fabulously funny" or have "lashings of mystery" as claimed in the editorial quotes. But Violet rails against this, wanting to make her own way in life and pursue a career, rather than making marriage her priority and only goal in life. This last career had ended abruptly when I persuaded the wife of the town mayor to pose for a portrait.

Sophie Irwin ‘Charming, exhilarating, fabulously funny and so full of heart – Violet is the heroine I’ve been waiting for. This means she is caught unawares more than once, but to her credit she is rarely discouraged and persists regardless. A Serving of Crime with a Difference - You May Just Discover Something Unique, Different, or Unusual in These 20 Crime Novels. Inside, nothing is special and unique, but outside people still have the surprise that such a thing exists. Raymond presently became one of the great and famous cattle barons, with holdings in the neighborhood of half a million acres.I especially loved seeing her dispatch her eager suitors with practiced ease while she wiggled her way into Mr. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Arriving back in New Mexico immediately after reading it and again surveying the country I am impressed by those who came and successfully settled, understanding why many did not succeed. Violet is frustrated by her lack of life inexperience, she has no idea about basic things a grown woman should know and what she has been told is rather vague and couldn't possibly be correct? The story follows Violet Hamilton, a twenty eight year old woman whose mother disappeared ten years earlier.