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Interesting and very well-written, but drags in places, especially in the first part of the book. Less than the sum of its parts, unfortunately. A few things bothered me throughout the story: Lydia Templeton and Lewis Durrant are the main characters and are supposed to be crazy in love with e...
Epic. Brilliant fictional recreation of the lives of 3 great Romantic poets - Byron, Shelley, Keats - and the women they were involved with - Byron's lovers Caroline Lamb and Augusta Leigh, Shelley's lover and wife Mary Godwin Shelley, and Keats' fiancee Fanny Brawne. The opening chapters also touch...
Wonderful book! Right up there with the best of Georgette Heyer (and the author owes a huge debt to Jane Austen). Caroline Fortune is, as her besotted suitor tells her at the end of the book, "the dearest, warmest, most generous and good-natured, amusing, entrancing and bewitchingly beautiful wom...
After learning her father is ruined, Caroline takes a position as companion to the horrible Mrs Catling. Caroline's job is comfortable - spacious accommodations, generous clothing allowance, delicious food, the opportunity to go out in society - but Mrs Catling is a vindictive, difficult and mean sp...
*happy sigh* even better on second read. full review coming soon.
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