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Mistress Couplet Series, No 1
Mary Balogh
Piatkus (Little, Brown)
7 April 2011/ ISBN 0749942177
Historical Romance / Regency London, England
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Reviewed
by Rachel A Hyde
When seamstress Jane Ingleby interrupts a duel and causes Jocelyn
Dudley, the Duke of Tresham, to get shot, she loses her job. However,
she immediately gains a new position as nurse to the Duke and then
finds herself with yet another role – his mistress. Both she
and the Duke have pasts they want to forget, and the cold, arrogant
Duke is surprised to find himself falling in love with his own mistress…
Mary Balogh is adept at this type of romance, a story where two
people with unhappy pasts fall in love with each other and, after
initial dislike, discover how to be happy. This is a story of that
type, with rather more depth than my bald outline indicates, and
that special something that makes this author so popular. You get
to care about the characters and want to know what is going to happen
to them, and underneath it all is an excellent knowledge of the
period that makes it more than just a “romance in long frocks.”
This is a tale set squarely in a particular period and we do not
forget that; but we never forget either for an instant that this
is a romance, not a straight historical novel. Regency romances
will be associated forever with Georgette Heyer; this is not her
style but a modern, sexy update for a different type of reader.
Historical romance for the chicklit generation.
Mistress Couplet Series
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