Witty Elizabeth and her younger, melodramatic sister Isabella Stanbroke have finally Come Out into regency England Society. Meanwhile, the Earl of Marchmont is being forced by his sensible spinster sister Emilia to find a wife and sire an heir before the year is out. His experiences in the army, a...
This is a delightful book, and Henry Highet is a dreamy, wonderful hero. The book has a true Regency feel - partly because the author deliberately wrote the book in the style of Jane Austen and other authors of that time, even using archaic spellings for some words ('chuse' instead of 'choose'). I'm...