Delilah
Wraxhall is the third young miss to be placed in the hands
of Amy and Effy Tribble. They advertise that they can bring
out the type of girl other chaperones despair of. Her father
the squire is keen to have the twenty-three-year-old beauty
wed once and for all after she has toyed with and broken the
hearts of all the local young men. But Delilah has a secret;
the only man she loved jilted her and she has vowed revenge
on all mankind. Trouble is, now the guilty party Sir Charles
Digby has resigned his commission and moved back to being
Delilah’s neighbor!
As with all the Regencies by this talented author I found
this to be amusing, pacy and a lot of fun. There is not much
of it. ?Ms Beaton never writes a long book but what there
is bursts with incidents, many of them funny. This is not
to say that this is just a novel that only delivers laughs,
you can expect plenty of well-researched period detail. You
won’t find sex but there is a surfeit of everything
else and seems to be of a style unique in the genre. By now
we are also getting to know the series characters and it is
fun to see what they are all up to as the series progresses.
Guaranteed to put the reader in a good humor, this series
comes highly recommended.
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