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| Nine Coaches Waiting (Coronet Books) | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Stewart
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 118079
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Impression
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 4.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 0340014393
EAN: 9780340014394
Publication Date: November 15, 1990
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Publisher: Hodder PaperbacksDate of Publication: 1990Binding: PaperbackCondition: Used - acceptable
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| Customer Reviews:
Class not trash August 31, 2008
Who needs chick lit when you can wallow in the delights of the past with Mary Stewart? Our mums were right when they devoured her novels along with the likes of Georgette Heyer and Victoria Holt. Modern life is indeed rubbish with its designer handbags and mobile phones, so take yourself off to a French chateau and spend some time with the divine Raoul and his mysteriously unhappy family. All will be well for Linda, of course... or will it?
takes you somewhere else, and makes it hard to leave September 3, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have recently gotten into a phase of british romance of the 50's and 60's. This phase started with this book. Sweet innocence, naive perkiness, a story that, though it has the expected ending, lures you into the flow, and it wont let go. In romance novels, just as in any other genre, there is quality and there is the other stuff. This is premium.
The start of my enjoyment of the work of Mary Stewart! August 1, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Nine Coaches Waiting was the first "Mary Stewart" I ever read - long years ago - and since then I have made sure to read every word she's written! Having had a period where I have read the works of other authors, I'm now starting from scratch again, to re-enjoy her works.
Her magic is timeless, and, for the younger ones among us, her modern novels are themselves "historical" as they are set in the mid-1900's when just about EVERYTHING was very different!
Wonderful suspense novel stands the test of time December 2, 2003
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Almost half a century after Mary Stewart first wrote Nine Coaches Waiting, this book remains a timeless classic--beautifully written, hauntingly evocative, full of charm, wit, suspense and romance. Most of the action takes place in a chateau in France's Savoy region, near Switzerland. Lonely young Linda Martin, a half-French/half-English orphan, comes to the chateau to act as governess to nine-year-old Philippe, himself a lonely orphan. Soon accidents start happening to Philippe, and Linda suspects that someone may mean him harm. She has to protect him, without knowing herself whom she can trust. But no plot synopsis can do this wonderful novel justice; this is a masterpiece from one of the most gifted storytellers of the 20th century.
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