Old Readymoney’s Daughter by L. T. Meade

Old Readymoney’s Daughter by L.T. Meade

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“What did she call the lead character?”
“John.”
“But what are you actually calling him?”
“FECKLESS LARRY THE FECKLESS SCOUNDREL OF FECKLESS TOWN.”
“I sensed there was some subtext.”
“How could there not be? I mean, look at that title.”
“It’s a bit … familiar, isn’t it? To call somebody Old Readymoney?”
“THEY DO IT TO HIS FACE.”
“But what does he do?”
“As far as I can figure out, he bails out all of the people who live in feckless town like a kind of benevolent Santa type figure (or maybe like a kind of Jimmy Stewart Wonderful Life type thing) and they all swoon and love him and call him OLD READYMONEY because he’ll dole out for anybody and they all know it and are kind of the rudest people ever.”
“So he’s a good egg?”
“The goodest.”
“But where does Feckless Larry come in?”
“Feckless Larry is going to marry the daughter of Old Readymoney but he is FECKLESS and POOR WITH MONEY and GOOD AT MAKING BAD CHOICES.”
“What’s the daughter called?”
“Mary. And because she loves Feckless, she is pro all of his bad choices.”
“Right.”
“Even the ones where he steals from his dead mama.”
“…right.”
“I know. Anyway, all of of Feckless Larry’s bad choices come out and Old Readymoney flips his proverbial and tells his daughter to choose between them and she goes OI LUV HIM like Eponine and marches off to London to go bring her man home.”
“…”
“WITH A NEWBORN BABY TUCKED UNDER HER ARM.”
“god these books.”
“I KNOW.”
“how’s it end then?”
“REDEMPTION AND NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES FOR ALL!”
“I should have known it.”

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