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by Emily Hendrickson Lady Penelope Winthrop is keen to marry - but the husband she wants is somebody who will take himself off to the Continent and leave her alone. Up in town for the first time and staying with her absent-minded cousin Letty she finds herself in need of some more practical help. Jonathan, Earl of Harford is a distant cousin and is somewhat dismayed to find himself being inveigled into her plan, but she has just helped him win a wager. Soon he finds that he is curiously reluctant to find her a suitor. Ah, the London Season, with all the pleasures of Almacks, balls, the opera, musicals and going shopping. We cannot go ourselves, but at least we have the next best thing with authors like Emily Hendrickson (who is also published as Emily Johnson by Robert Hale). This is one of those books with the power to transport the reader to those times in the style of Georgette Heyer, and Ms Hendrickson is about as close as you can get with a living author. Romance, comedy, a fine sense of time and place as well as plenty of entanglements make this a fuller read than many Regencies, and is what I think of when I think of the genre. Highly recommend for all Regency fans. |
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