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by Beth Elliott Kitty Towers enjoys helping her father the vicar with his good works, and regards a London Season as being rather decadent and superfluous. She has made up her mind that her life will be too full with helping the needy to allow room for a husband and children. But her family is not well off and there are several other daughters to provide for, so she is packed off to stay with her aunt, Lady Picton, in London, along with her beautiful and sweet friend, Amelia. En route they meet dashing Theo Weston, back from the wars and wounded, but surely he is too boorish to make a suitable mate? Ms Elliott has written a sparkling romance showing how those not in the first ranks of society enjoy their Season, along with other London pleasures. As well as romance there is a frisson of danger involving secret papers and the Peninsula War, putting the hero and heroine in some danger. This is perhaps a quintessential Regency, with a look at London society, shopping for ball gowns and Horrid novels, rakish young men and romantic balls. Dive in and enjoy, the sort of book that reminds me why I like reading this sort of thing so much. |
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