The Tutor's Daughter -- Review

The Tutor’s Daughter

Emma Smallwood has accompanied her father to Cornwall where he will tutor the younger two or four boys born to the Baronet Giles Weston. She looks forward to the prospect of seeing the second son, Phillip, but Henry, the eldest, concerns her. They’d first met when he came to study at Smallwood Academy under her father during his teen years and for her, they weren’t pleasant years, for he relentlessly teased and pulled pranks on her.

Shortly after their arrival, the pranks commence once again. Are they Henry’s old childish pranks? Or has one of his brothers taken up the torch of tormenting her? Add to the strain she bears when trying to suppress the angst rising from being teased, the lady of the house, Mrs. Weston, wants nothing to do with the Smallwoods, and the Weston family have a secret Mrs. Weston is desperate to keep hidden—not to mention the secret she’s been keeping from her husband.

Can it be possible that Emma find romance in such a tense home? Is her heart able to trust the man who’d tormented her so many years before? When the opportunity rises, they find a common bond that knits together a fledgling friendship. But is love possible?

Not if Mrs. Weston has anything to say about it. No son of the Weston house will marry beneath his station.

Or will he?

Set during the Regency Time period, in England—more specifically Cornwall, The Tutor’s Daughter, is a delightful read written by Julie Klassen offering history lessons, a bit of suspense, and a thread of romance to the manse of Baronet Giles Weston.