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Folly
Daughters of Mannerling Book IV
M C Beaton

Canvas (Constable and Robinson)
6 March 2014 / ISBN 9781780333267
Regency Romance

Reviewed by Rachel A Hyde

 

With her twin Abigail married, Rachel Beverley has come out of her shell and is hoping to be the sister who regains Mannerling for her family. There is a new man in residence there, together with his father the General and his two young children. But Charles Blackwood is not only a widower but at least forty, so surely too old for young Rachel to consider? Another woman is after him, a statuesque widow called Minerva Santerton who is staying with Charles and embarrassingly Lady Beverley is setting her cap at the General. And why does Charles young son think the house is haunted by a foxy-faced man?

As usual this one is a lot of fun; a dubious widow, an unusually flirtatious Lady Beverley, a ghost, a possible murder, and plenty to enjoy. We get to see Rachel having her turn to regain the family seat and again see the house exert its baleful influence, a feature of these stories that is rather well done. But then so is everything else, from the romance to the humor and feeling that the period has been captured perfectly. Miss Trimble treats everybody to a description of a Bond Street Lounger from the paper, and genially pulls strings to see all ends well. Whenever I read reviews of other Regency romances people are usually seeing how they measure up to Georgette Heyer; Ms. Beaton has wisely gone ahead and done her own thing.

Reviews of other titles in this series

Banishment - Book I
Intrigue - Book II
Deception - Book III
Folly - Book IV

 
Reviewed 2014
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