The Right Kind of Girl by Betty Neels

A suitable wife?

Emma Trent had spent most of her life looking after other people, so it was a shock to encounter a man so determined to take care of her – Sir Paul Wyatt was fast becoming her very own guardian angel!

She was hardly in a position to turn down his proposal of marriage, even if it was motivated by convenience on his part. With her plain looks and practical nature, Emma knew her limitations, but longed for children of her own. Could the eminent surgeon be the answer to all her dreams?

I give this book 2 stars

I found this book to be a little frustrating than her other books, I found the H Paul very confusing, unlikable aswell as frustrating and I thought the h Emma was a bit of a doormat with him because he would do his own thing and she would be left on her own, I know it’s a marriage of convenience but I would like to see a bit of affection lol.
As usual we have the ow but this time she’s just a troublemaker who isn’t the ow but wants to be and she runs the orphanage where Emma goes to work part tine seeing as Paul leaves her on her own alot and Diana sees an opportunity to cause trouble by getting Emma to help some people who are stranded and when Paul finds out she tells him that Emma wanted to go on her own and not get an ambulance, so Paul and Emma argue and this is the point now where I really dislike Paul as he tells Emma that “Diana is worth a dozen of you”when she tries to explain abot what Diana really said and the only reason he eventually believes her is when a lady who works at the orphanage tells him that she overheard what had been said and that Diana had been lying.
Now I’m expecting him to come home to Emma and for him to apolgise and grovel to her but he doesn’t and somehow towards the end despite all the trouble the ow had caused she’s the one who is apologising to him when he tells her he’ll go to America on his own, I’m pleased there was a part where he goes and tells Diana what he thinks of her but I think he is one of the worst characters out of all Betty’s books for saying that to Emma and I would have liked to have seen Emma grow a backbone rather than choosing to be second best if he went with Diana.
I would have liked it better if she threw him out whilst explaining what had really happened, divorce him, let Diana know that’s all hers now and then marry someone who thinks she’s worth a dozen over any woman, I thought the ending as usual was very quick and I still didn’t see him apologise to her, not at all satisfying.