A Chance Encounter

A hang-up man tries to love in a different way from normal, and finally manages the psychological shadow for love. A wife fully devoted to her husband decides to live her dreams with a lover. Her husband doesn't give up and stays in their flat. When Lola's boyfriend is unfaithful to her on his summer holiday, she dumps him and flirts with his best friend as punishment.

But as their class prepares to leave on an excursion to London, the relationship heats up. A family man's encounter with a beautiful woman develops into a mutual fascination. The actors are doing their job, but not more. The feelings are only on the surface and never take off. Lot's of nice looking and unconvincing footage swirls by showing very little of how these people are supposed feel.

Anaemic to say the least. The main characters themselves and their story is boring to follow. Even the music picks are devoid of real emotion, except maybe the end track. There is only one plot twist or some kind of surprise and it's not convincing. The best scenes were when the main character's relationships to their children were in focus, where I found them more believable than in their relationship with each other.

If you want a French bland feel good love story I guess this will be all right, but there is little inspiration to be found and very little if anything to reflect over. I wish I hadn't wasted my time on this one. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. What is Emily Mortimer Watching?

Share this Rating Title: Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Learn more More Like This. Madame Mills, une voisine si parfaite Lists with This Book. The beginning was very promising with shades of Persuasion in it. I was content and happy to immerse in the narrative. And then the sound of warning bells turned into a huge cacophony with the big revelation somewhere in the middle. So weak was the motive and circumstance for the two lovers to be apart that the author had to keep explaining how the divide between these two could have happened.

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The more she over-explained, the more convoluted and unbelievable it became and the more I disliked the characters. Definitely not the story I would recommend. View all 4 comments. Jul 30, Ivy H rated it liked it Shelves: This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Lots of repetitive eye rolling occurred during the reading of this novel.

A Chance Encounter

This second chance storyline was based on a trope that is one of my least favourites in romance: The MC's were young lovers almost reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, except that there was no family feud. The MC's met during Elizabeth's debut season in London. They fell in love and got married secretly, because the H Robert was the younger son of a marquess who expected him to marry an heires Lots of repetitive eye rolling occurred during the reading of this novel.

They fell in love and got married secretly, because the H Robert was the younger son of a marquess who expected him to marry an heiress. Elizabeth was the daughter of an impoverished, gamblerholic, alcoholic Baron. Robert was in his early 20's and the heroine was Robert also had a rich uncle who felt that Elizabeth's pedigree was was unsuitable and this meddling manipulator took it upon himself to make a deal with the heroine's gold digging father.

The MC's had only spent a weekend in each other's company, after they were married secretly, when Robert received news that his father and older brother had died. He left Elizabeth with his kind grandmother and went to make funeral arrangements etc. This is where the first major eyerolling occurred. Why didn't the H take his new wife with him and introduce her to the rest of his family especially the sly uncle. Then, to make things worse, the heroine didn't stay with her grand mother-in-law even though she'd promised to do so.

Instead, she went back home and her meddling father got angry because he'd wanted her to marry a wealthy man. At this point in the story, Robert was in financial difficulties because both his late father and brother had been gamblers and spendthrifts. Elizabeth's mercenary dad felt he'd been cheated out of a chance to make some easy money. It didn't occur to him that he was the one who had been expected according to regency era customs to provide a dowry for his daughter. Anyway, the heroine's churlish dad met with the H's rich uncle and made a deal. Robert's cunning uncle hated the idea of his nephew, who was now the Marquess of Hetherington, sullying the family name by being married to Elizabeth.

He bribed Elizabeth's father, to the sum of 10 pounds, to assist him in breaking up the MC's marriage. Elizabeth's greedy father took the money and then lied to the heroine, telling her that Robert planned to divorce her since he wanted a bride with better pedigree to be his marchioness. He also provided some forged letters. Robert's uncle and Elizabeth's father went even further with their duplicitous plan: Robert did turn up to look for Elizabeth but her father sent him away.

It pissed me off that the H hadn't insisted on seeing her himself and confronting her because this would've cleared up the misunderstanding. Thus began the era of intense eye rolling, on the part of this reader! The MC's both hate each other, as a result of the misunderstanding, yet they're both too proud to confront each other about what had happened. They spent all their time trading insults, ignoring each other and trying to make each other jealous. This was where the storyline seemed a trifle weak to me. Too much time was spent on the monotonous chronicling of day to day social events, dinners etc.

The MC's didn't even spend a lot of time in each other's company because they were always part of a larger group of people when they were together. Robert also seemed particularly hateful and cynical. He kept accusing Elizabeth of being a greedy gold digger but never elaborated or never used his logic to ask her why she often seemed puzzled at his accusations.

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The heroine was also a bit lacking in common sense because she never asked him why he made such accusations. The storyline was livened up a little by the inclusion of a wannabe OW and a wannabe OM. The OW was a vicious bitch who kept chasing after Robert and warning off every woman who spoke to him more than 3 times! The OM was a wonderful man; in fact, I almost wished Elizabeth had ended up with him because he had the requisite characteristics of a hero: Mainwaring the wannabe OM was also the H's best friend and Robert refused to divorce Elizabeth to allow her to re-marry.

My final bit of exasperated eye rolling occurred after the MC's discovered how they'd been duped by his uncle and her father. Robert apologized for the way he'd treated her when they'd met again and he told her he still loved her so much that he'd been celibate all these years they've been apart! The stupid heroine refused to reconcile with him: And I thank you very much for coming.

A Chance Encounter Kindle Locations This scene was awful. She actually forced him to leave and if it hadn't been for the intervention of her brother then the MC's would've continued to be estranged. Robert had to kidnap her to prevent her from leaving to go work for a new family as their governess. Elizabeth's rationale for her behaviour was her fear of being hurt and disillusioned again.

I found it understandable but also unacceptable because it made her seem like a such a weakling. And, she had been a very strong heroine throughout the story, so the author's plot twist made her character appear to be somewhat inconsistent. But, the H redeemed himself by persuading her and grovelling once again: I am afraid to love again.

Can you bear to think of the emptiness? I need you and I believe you need me just as much. Come back to me, love. This was fairly good and could've been fabulous if the middle bulk of the story hadn't been so focused on boring everyday stuff with even more boring minor characters. Both MC's had been celibate during their separation but the author did include the wannabe OM and OW to add jealous angst to the storyline. This is the H, Robert: This is the heroine, Elizabeth: Nov 04, Twiggy rated it it was ok Shelves: Well normally I love Mary Balogh, but this is one of her earlier books and just made me want to scream.

As other reviewers have pointed out this is based on a big Misunderstanding, which makes absolutely NO sense whatsoever. The heroine Elizabeth Rossiter is working as a Companian to the 18 year old Cecily. The nearby manor is occupied by the owner and some guests. It turns out that one of those is the Marquess of Hetherington and that he and Elizabeth have a Past.

The first pages and so are Well normally I love Mary Balogh, but this is one of her earlier books and just made me want to scream. The first pages and so are related to their meetings in company, the fact that he seems to hate her, and some reminiscences and flash backs etc. When Elizabeth's nephew falls ill, she panics and says that she must get home as soon as possible. Heatherington announces that he will take her as after all she is his wife. They then have a squabble about whether or not they are divorced and he tells her that they are not and in fact they are still married.

The h and h go off to see the nephew and get on ok although she is uncomfortable and does eventually chase him off. She loves him but would rather suffer his absence. The h returns to her life of servitude. The hero comes after her and asks her why she left him for money. She denies it and tells him that he abandoned her. It occurs to the heroine after she has chased the h off that he may have believed what he said and there may have been a misunderstanding.

They suspect their father and the H's uncle had conspired to keep the lovers apart. She writes to Heatherington asking him to come to her. She gets a brush off response from his secretary. She closes her heart and decides to take another position with a man she identifies as a mean spirited lech.

A Chance Encounter

The h turns up , tells her he has discovered the truth and that he didn't have his secretary write to her in those terms and in fact has been to London, Scotland and Paris within the past 2 weeks. He loves her , it is all a misunderstanding, they can make a go of their marriage. She accepts it's a misunderstanding and that it was not his fault but rejects him out of hand the reasons were beyond me She is all set to go off with the creep but instead finds herself with Heatherington as they drive off to Devon and after a bit of a kiss and conuddle , they all live hea.

By the end of the book I was ready to bash the heroine's head in. The whole premise on the misunderstanding appeared to be that the uncle did not think the h was good enough for his nephew who should marry a wealthier woman etc. This is all very well, had the separation been achieved before they married but was entirely pointless thereafter.

It was hard to credit that the uncle would have been so pompous and yet was willing to tolerate the thought to divorce socially ruinous or else the thought that there would be no legitimate heir to the title thereafter. Also if the h's father had been so interested in money, he would have revisited the plan after the hero inherited his money.

May 17, Gilgamesha rated it liked it. I have not read one book that has handled the misunderstanding trope as well as Duran in the Duke of Shadows View all 3 comments. Nov 27, Renae rated it did not like it Shelves: I love Mary Balogh.

She is my favorite historical romance author. Well, all her books except this one. Imagine the lackluster offspring of Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion , but with an extra-large dose of screamingly aggravating melodrama. A Chance Encounter is one sustained Big Misunderstanding that goes on for 6 years and an entire novel. It's absurd and made me want to tear my hair out. This book is so terrible and nonsensical an What. This book is so terrible and nonsensical and unbelievable.

What was Balogh thinking? Elizabeth and Robert met and fell in love in their salad days, and then they eloped. Shortly after the wedding, something Bad happened, and they were separated by evil relatives, who made each believe the other had abandoned them. They then spend the next 6 years hating each other, until they meet by chance at a country ball.

They then spent the next pages hurling insults at each other and otherwise being nasty. Did it ever occur for them to sit down and say "Dearest, why the fuck did you abandon me two days after our elopement? Obviously, it all gets sorted out and they live Happily Ever After, but in the meantime, this book got on every one of my nerves. This was especially the case because for some reason Balogh only gives readers Elizabeth's point of view.

Imagine being stuck inside the head of an emotionally unstable, bitter woman who refuses to think rationally about anything for the entire book. What the fuck, guys. There has never been such a case of manufactured conflict as this one. Possibly the least overwrought long separation, big M isunderstanding HRs out there - none of the revenge nonsense that many of the other ones typically employ - but is still true to its type, which is why I like it.

Not a 5 because the ending last 10 or so pages should have just been cut out. Which begs the question of what good is a story such as this without even a decent ending But I do like my share of angst, confusion, and not real betrayal, so I'm giving this a 3.

Jan 02, Christine rated it it was ok. Since the backstory is told through a series of rather annoying flashbacks, it wasn't until the end that I realized just how far-fetched the premise really was. That would only make sense if they actually did get a divorce, but since they didn't she was told they had a divorce, he knew better , the premise was utterly unfathomable. Mar 13, Tina rated it it was ok Shelves: I hate to rate this book as low as I do because really, it is not a bad book.

But it is definitely an infuriating one.

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I give Balogh a bit of a pass because this is one of her early books. The village is abuzz because the owner of he largest, most prosperous property is coming for a stay and is bringing some sophisticated friends from London. As is usual in t 2. As is usual in these books, the local gentry want to have a series of social rounds with the visiting nobles and marry off various children.

One of the visitors is Robert Denning, Marquess of Hetherington. And it is soon obvious that he and Elizabeth have a past. And oh yeah, he hates her. The first part of the book is all question marks. Why does Robert despise Elizabeth so? What is the nature of their past relationship?

Slowly, Elizabeth reveals their relationship through flashbacks.

And at the midpoint of the book, Robert throws down a bombshell. And this is where I find the book really infuriating. Everything that has happened in the past and even going forward, hinges on the Grand Misunderstanding. It gets to a point where Elizabeth's intransigence just makes you want to slap her.