Lady Be Good, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Lady Be Good, Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Lady Be Good

Author: Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Narrator: Anna Fields

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/19/2020


Synopsis

This classic tale from New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back to delight readers once again A British Lady, Lady Emma Wells-Finch, the oh-so-proper headmistressof England’s St. Gertrude’s School for Girls, is a woman on a mission—she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing orders, she knows only one thing will save her from losing everything she holds dear: complete and utter disgrace! A Texas Rascal, world-famous playboy-athlete Kenny Traveler has kicked-up his boot heels one too many times, and now he’s suspended from the sport he loves. Only one thing will restore his career:complete and utter respectability! Unfortunately, he’s been blackmailed into chauffeuring bossy, single-minded Lady Emma, and she’s hell-bent on visiting honkytonks,chasing down tattoo parlors, and worse.. lots worse. It’s love, all-American style when this gorgeous man who can’t afford another scandal meets this hardheaded woman who’s determined to cause one.

About Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Sometimes becoming an author is quite a surprise. This happened to Susan Elizabeth Phillips. She had many haphazard meetings and lucky breaks. One such meeting was on a blind date with a college engineering student. She was not even quite sure what engineers did, but she fell in love and ended up marrying him. After two years they started a family, which eventually grew to two children. Susan says today they have bonus children in their boys spouses, and four grandchildren.

She says that her writing career came by accident. She and her husband and kids moved from Ohio to New Jersey, where her best friend lived two doors down. They spent much of their time reading books and discussing them afterward. On a lark, they decided to try to write their own book. After a few miserable failures, they finally put half of a book together. They had a phone number of a Dell Publishing editor, so they called to inquire whether they would review their manuscript to see if they had any chance of publication. To their surprise, the editor agreed to review what they had written. She also wanted to see a synopsis along with the manuscript. They had no idea what a synopsis even was! They managed to put together what Dell had requested. Three weeks later, the editor from Dell called them to say they liked it, and made them a monetary offer. She remembers thinking........just like that, we were published. Again, Susan says she was lucky that the publishers were scouting for more books for the hot book market.

In 1983 the first book was finished, entitled The Copeland Bride under a pseudonym Justine Cole. Susan's friend moved away, so she had to now learn how to write alone. She finally had two more books published in the historical romance genre........Risen Glory, and Just Imagine. Both books were written under her real name, and she admitted that writing alone was not as much fun as with her friend. She went on to write Glitter Baby, which received international attention. She finally felt that she had a true writing career.

Susan and her husband, Bill, moved to the Chicago area. She started writing again, and refers to those books as her "big books". They were Fancy Pants, Hot Shot, and Honey Moon. Each of those took two years to complete, and was published by Pocket. Susan's career continues today, and she is pleased to say that she has found her contemporary voice.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Beatriz on April 05, 2021

Hace tiempo que no me divertía tanto con un libro, de verdad, donde otros sólo me han sacado una sonrisa, con esta lectura me sorprendí riéndome a carcajadas. Es que SEP crea unas situaciones comiquísimas con unos personajes caracterizados de forma impecable. Por lo mismo, la sentí más una novela de......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on August 03, 2015

Classic Susan Elizabeth Phillips! Lady Be Good is the second installment in her adult contemporary romance series titled Wynette, Texas. I just love Ms. Phillips' ability to write amazing humor and romance and she excels at both in this one. Golf is one of my least favorite sports so the male lead's......more

Goodreads review by Milica's on May 01, 2016

Upravo sam završila sa čitanjem, napolju zora sviće a ja se cerim ko idiot. Obožavam ovakve lagane, opuštajuće ljubavne priče sa malom dozom napetosti.......more

Goodreads review by Jacob on October 16, 2016

My second by SEP, I didn't like it as much as the first, though I liked it well enough. All of that is down to Emma, though. She's worried about becoming one of "those dear, old things" and is looking to change that with the added impetus of needing to turn an unwanted suitor off the hunt. Because h......more