Patricia Wentworth's The Fire Within
This is Wentworth's first novel, and at first I thought it was going to be an entertaining mystery involving a sassy old man (what is the male version of sassy?) who’s dying, but instead it ended up being kind of a depressing romance? Girl, he doesn’t deserve you! There /are/ some funny moments, and I liked a lot of the stuff between the protagonist and her sister and best friend, but there were also some very … weird parts. Also very draggy in the back half. Some glimmers of her later stuff but this is probably a miss unless you’re a completist. B/B-.
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