Peggy By Request - it was okay

Done with Peggy. It was okay, but not as fabulous as some of the other novels. It took a looooong time to get to anything, and then I think the author actually missed some opportunity for buildup. Peggy and Noel had FUN times together when she was six and he was twenty-two! They should have at least reminisced about that and smiled together! But it was almost like two people met casually, liked each other and gradually fell in love in the normal course of things. There's some drama when disgraceful behavior on Noel's part is revealed, and Peggy reacts in a slightly unexpected way, which develops the characters-- but the solution, frankly, is pretty stupid and contrived, and so's the denouement. Peggy should have married Captain Turner, who loved her enough to fight for her! Nope, I wasn't overly impressed, and I'll just list it again on Ebay.

Peggy By Request cover

It was called "Peggy by Request" when it was published in the United States.  This was the most on-point cover that I could find.  That's what I'm currently reading!  I found a copy on Ebay for $4, quite beat up, but I just wanted to read it because I was VERY interested in how the Noel Wyndham romance would go  :-)

In Keeper of the Door, the heroine for a short time is interested in Noel Wyndham instead of his older brother Max.  Noel Wyndham's a very good sport-- at the end of the story he's still cheerful, and playfully consenting to marry a girl who's very much in love with him and has been following him around through the whole book-- beautiful blonde Peggy, then six years old!  Ethel Dell was besieged with requests from readers to know what, if anything, happens with these two once Peggy grows up!