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Nine Coaches Waiting (Mary Stewart Modern Classic) [Kindle Edition]

Mary Stewart (Author)
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'From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights' (Sunday Telegraph )

'Mary Stewart is magic' (New York Times )

'She set the bench mark for pace, suspense and romance - with a great dollop of escapism as the icing' (Elizabeth Buchan )

'A comfortable chair and a Mary Stewart: total heaven. I'd rather read her than most other authors.' (Harriet Evans )

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'From opening to finale, this zestful romantic adventure grips, amuses, frightens and delights'
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 534 KB
  • Print Length: 356 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1556526180
  • Publisher: Hodder (26 May 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004YD1S8C
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #26,719 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
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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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Mrs. K. A. P. Wright TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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This was the first Mary Stewart novel I ever read way back when.It had either been a Woman's Hour reading or a serial and I found a copy in a second hand shop. It was one of the first grown up books I had read and seemed to me to be the last word in sophistication. Although I have revisited it, I haven't read it for many years.

What a delight! It is, I suppose, a little dated in some of its attitudes, but the strength of the story and the characterization easily outweigh these minor flaws. It has all the ingredients of a true romance: a feisty heroine of strong principles emerging from poverty; a child for her to protect; a wildly romantic chateau as a setting; a diabolically charming chief villain; and two possible heroes, one strong, blond, noble Englishman and a dark saturnine Frenchman who may or may not be as devilish as his father.These may sound like stereotypes, I would say rather that they are the prototypes on which most characters of modern romances have been based, but unlike most prototypes they are fully developed and engaging.

I have now decided to reread all Mary Stewart's books. It was so pleasing to read a well made story that was literate and educated without being pretentious.

If you have not read any of her books you have such a treat in store!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
good read
This book was a rare find for me; a Mary Stewart book I hadn't already read! I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions, the tension,and the unexpected developments the author wove into... Read more
Published 27 days ago by Renee Bertrand
9 Coaches
Sorry to say I found this book laborious, the story never really got going for me and the flora descriptions far too tedious - although I love many varied types of flora - these... Read more
Published 28 days ago by Skylark
I have read this so many times ...
I pick this book up every couple of years and my own copy of 20 years+ is now falling apart. I really love the description and build up to the suspense at the end even though I... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Jane Austen
NINE COACHES WAITING - A CLASSIC
This is a book to keep and read again and again.

When I first read it my teens,I was smitten with Raoul de Valmy and I was Linda Martin, transported to the Haute-Savoie,... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Scarlett Jones
an engrossing read
It's many years since I last read this book. I've read it at least twice, and I wish I didn't remember it so clearly, so that I could have the pleasure of re-discovering it. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Shouna Falconer
The best romantic novel ever written
I have loved this book for thirty years, ever since I first read it as a teenager. It is the best of Mary Stewart's beautifully written, highly literate thriller romances, though... Read more
Published on 25 Sep 2009 by Greville Fane
A mystery, a romance and a perfect blend of gothic spookiness
What's not to love? Linda Martin arrives at the Chateaux Valmy high in the French Alps to care for young Comte Philippe, recently orphaned and in the care of his uncle Leon and... Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2009 by Misfit
Class not trash
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... Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2008 by herladyship
The start of my enjoyment of the work of Mary Stewart!
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! Read more
Published on 1 Aug 2007 by Marie
A Cinderella story with a suspense twist
I was first introduced to Mary Stewart by my mother when I was a teenager in the sixties. Together we read all her books as they came out, but this one and Madam Will You Talk were... Read more
Published on 26 Oct 2000
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