The third book in the Wayne family trilogy, Six Impossible Things centers on Nicholas, who in the first book, returned from military service determined to try to keep the family house and be a guardian to his youngest sister and brothers.
It’s ten years later. Most of the family is away now, but all of them are returning home for the wedding of Miriam Arkwright to an Austrian count. Nicholas goes to the airport to pick up his sister Julia, who has spent the last two years studying music in Rome. At the airport he is admiring a lovely girl when Julia arrives with a bundle of packages. She hands him an airline bag and goes back to get more packages. Then Nicholas is accosted by a large, rude man, who tells him he is holding his fiancée’s bag. Nicholas says his siter gave it to him and he wants to make sure it isn’t hers before handing it over. The man, who is with the girl Nicholas was admiring, insists that Nicholas just took the bag to meet his girlfriend and becomes abusive. Julie comes back and realizes she has given Nicholas the wrong bag. They exchange, but somehow when they get home, they find they have the wrong bag again.
Nicholas asks Julia to write the girl, Elaine Morley, a note telling her he’ll bring her bag if she meets him. Instead, she arrives on their doorstep, having broken with her fiancé, Sir Kenneth Springer, and left without taking anything with her. Knowing that Kenneth Springer will descend upon them, Julia suggests she take up an offer of her old music teacher to lend his house to wedding guests, whom she and Elaine will tend to, and the girls move to that house.
Soon Springer arrives. To add to the chaos, Joey Helyon has returned to town to shoot a documentary, a more long-term way to help Elaine must be found, Julia has two young men courting her, and even Joey gets romantic.
This is a delightful light read. After three books, Nicholas deserves a happy ending.
