The Marrying Game

The Marrying Game opens on Christmas Eve, with four sisters at home worrying about money. The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father.
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The Marrying Game

Please try again later. I bought this book awhile back because my library didn't own it they still don't. The seemingly over-glowing descriptions of the Hasty sisters didn't make them as real to me either.


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For some reason I kept having to remind myself that this story was set in the present. All in all it was fairly entertaining but I wish that I had waited to request an interlibrary loan rather than spending money on this. Wonderful British chick-lit book with multiple story lines and lots of shenanigans.

One person found this helpful. It features the four Hasty sisters and their mother, Rose, who are living in not-so-genteel poverty. The family was devastated when Rose's husband, Rufus Hasty, whom the family affectionately nicknamed "The Zed," killed himself one day without even leaving a note. Now the ladies are desperately seeking a way to retain their beloved ancestral home, Melismate, which has been in the family for generations.

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Unfortunately, the Hasty family is almost penniless. Two of the sisters come up with the idea of convincing rich men to fall in love with them, a scheme that they call "The Marrying Game. Besides being utterly gorgeous young ladies, Rufa, Nancy, Selena, and Lydia are fascinating and charming individuals. Saunders makes each character come brilliantly alive. Rufa, who is an extraordinary chef, is the most vulnerable, since her father's death hit her the hardest. Selena is bookish but rebellious. Nancy is voluptuous and a bit wild.

Lydia has already endured a failed marriage and she is the mother of a precocious and adorable little girl named Linnet. Saunders works her magic on many levels.

On the one hand, "The Marrying Game" is a comic bedroom farce, with various characters falling in and out of love constantly. Saunders gets serious, however, when she describes the touching devotion of the Hasty sisters to one another. In addition, Saunders sensitively explores the difficulty of carrying on after suffering the loss of a loved one.

Saunders has Jane Austen's psychological insight and attention to detail, Louisa May Alcott's understanding of family dynamics, and Elinor Lipman's zaniness and saucy irreverence.

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Yet, Saunders is not just a pale imitation of other novelists. She has her own original voice, and "The Marrying Game" is a wonderful comedy of manners that has a great deal to say about life and love. In England, the four Hasty sisters are stunned by the suicide death of their larger than life father, affectionately known as the Zed. MuseofIre Mar 14, Is abridged in Of Love and Life: You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

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The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father, an eccentric aristocrat, has just died, leaving the Hasty family so impoverished that they are about to lose their splendid but crumbling house. So the two oldest sisters--Rufa, tall, elegant, and too serious for her own good; and Nancy, a gorgeous, irreverent redhead who relishes her work as a part-time barmaid in the local pub--decide that the way to redeem the family fortunes is to marry money.

Surely it can't be that hard to find two very rich men and make the men fall in love with them. Thus begins a gloriously modern story that makes us genuinely care about the whole Hasty family. As Rufa and Nancy set out to blaze a trail through London society, they find that nothing in The Marrying Game turns out quite the way they've planned. Amazon Kindle 0 editions. CD Audiobook 0 editions.

Project Gutenberg 0 editions. Google Books — Loading The setting is present-day England, and the girls' father, an eccentric aristocrat, has just died, leaving the Hasty family so impoverished that they are about to lose their splendid but crumbling house. So the two oldest sisters--Rufa, tall, elegant, and too serious for her own good; The Marrying Game opens on Christmas Eve, with four sisters at home worrying about money. So the two oldest sisters--Rufa, tall, elegant, and too serious for her own good; and Nancy, a gorgeous, irreverent redhead who relishes her work as a part-time barmaid in the local pub--decide that the way to redeem the family fortunes is to marry money.

Surely it can't be that hard to find two very rich men and make the men fall in love with them. Thus begins a gloriously modern story that makes us genuinely care about the whole Hasty family. As Rufa and Nancy set out to blaze a trail through London society, they find that nothing in The Marrying Game turns out quite the way they've planned.

Paperback , pages. Published August 1st by St. Martin's Griffin first published To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about The Marrying Game , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jul 03, Laura rated it it was amazing. This is the second book I've read in less than a week by British author Kate Saunders and I loved it. Part chick lit and part romance, it is smart and funny and her prose about everyday things can be can be achingly beautiful. All the characters are reeling from the recent suicide of the family patriarch, who by all accounts was a real jerk.

How the four sisters, their mother, and the assorted men in t This is the second book I've read in less than a week by British author Kate Saunders and I loved it. How the four sisters, their mother, and the assorted men in their lives deal with this suicide is the crux of the book. My biggest disappointment is that Sauders has only written children's books since publishing this and Bachelor Boys. He put his arms around her, and felt the love she had for him, trying to beat its way throught the barrier of the bargain they had made.

Mentally he shuffled the pack of truth cards, to find a configuration that would not alarm her. She would never understand the detailed delicacy, the fine filigree of scruple, that made up Rufa's moral landscape.

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Sep 01, Kathryn added it. Got absolutely glowing reviews on Amazon from both customers and published authors in the genre. As one reviewer said, "Saunders has Jane Austen's psychological insight and attention to detail, Louisa May Alcott's understanding of family dynamics, and Elinor Lipman's zaniness and saucy irreverence.

Yet, Saunders is not just a pale imitation of other novelists.


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She has her own original voice, and "The Marrying Game" is a wonderful comedy of manners that has a great deal to say about life and love Got absolutely glowing reviews on Amazon from both customers and published authors in the genre. She has her own original voice, and "The Marrying Game" is a wonderful comedy of manners that has a great deal to say about life and love.

I see a few GoodReads reviewers were less than impressed. So far, I'm middle-of-the-road on this one. It entertained me enough on a cross-country flight, but failed to hold my attention once I got home. Mar 14, Meredith Galman rated it really liked it Shelves: Impoverished, beautiful blueblood sisters Rufa and Nancy Hardy decide it's their duty to marry money to save their mother, sisters, and estate from ruin after the suicide of their wastrel father.

The text references both Little Women and Jane Austen , and the book has a definite Austen vibe to it -- if Austen had written explicitly about sex, drugs, and gay best friends. Still, even with all that, the story is never predictable: Jan 04, Karen Powell added it. This chick lit has many homages to Jane Austen: However, this is not your dignified Austen!

However, time has not been kind to the family, and they struggle to make ends meet. The four sisters, Rufa, Nancy, Lydia, and Selena, are still reeling after the unexpected This chick lit has many homages to Jane Austen: The four sisters, Rufa, Nancy, Lydia, and Selena, are still reeling after the unexpected death of their vibrant father, Rufus, also known as "The Zed. Whereas the Zed was content to move his mistresses in despite his long-suffering yet patient wife Rose who later got to install her own lover in the household , the Hasty girls try to define what they want in life and love.

Notions of infidelity and the Hastys' unique family life may not be palatable to some, but these themes add to the singularity of the novel. Some parts go a little oer the top, like how the author is constantly reminding us how hot the protagonists are Yes, we get it, Nancy has big breasts! Side characters are fun to read about, if a bit one-dimentional and stereotypical. The author's strength is the depicting the family moments, how the Hastys care for one another. Perhaps that's why we fogive The Zed's philosophy on fidelity, because it's the family moments that count for the Hastys.

Oct 03, Pirate rated it it was ok. This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Sometimes your commute changes and you require a book. And your only option may be the hot pink book from the "free" area at work. How bad could it be? The Marrying Game is self-promotingly cute, like that cheerleader at your high school. It so clearly wants to be the modern "Little Women," and makes sure to literally reference that work many times throughout the story.

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