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Kiss and Kin by Angela Lambert (view source)
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It's six months since the death of Harriet Capel's husband George. Looking back she's concluded that she was fond of, - but probably not ''in love'', with - him. They had two sons and it's the elder of these, Roderick who's married to Jennifer. They have three children, but there's been a rather silly feud between the Capels and Jennifer's family, the Gaunts, which dates back to the couple's wedding, when Clarissa Gaunt, Jennifer's mother said something unpleasant in the church which dropped into one of those silences which always occur when you say something which you really shouldn't. Honours (or should it be ''dishonours''?) were even when George Capel later said something crass and vulgar about the bride's mother and was overheard.
Now that George has gone, Harriet has had enough of feuding and suggests to her son that the families get together and start afresh - and that the tenth birthday of Hugo, the couple's only son and eldest child, would be a suitable occasion to mend fences. Clarissa Gaunt can't make the party, but Oliver, Jennifer's father, comes over from France. It's years since Oliver and Harriet have met - and when they did they were rather over-shadowed by the feuding, but when Oliver sees Harriet again he falls in love - and Harriet falls in love with him. Harriet would accept the relationship as being just for the week that they're both in London: that way no one is going to get hurt, but Oliver will have none of this. He's going to leave Clarissa and live with Harriet in her Dorset home.