The Corset Diaries
No woman in her right mind would consent to wearing a corset for a month. Especially a "skinny-challenged" woman like Tessa. But dreams of being debt-free dance in her head at the offer of appearing in a reality TV show. "A Month in the Life of a Victorian Duke" is about real people pretending to...
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No woman in her right mind would consent to wearing a corset for a month. Especially a "skinny-challenged" woman like Tessa. But dreams of being debt-free dance in her head at the offer of appearing in a reality TV show. "A Month in the Life of a Victorian Duke" is about real people pretending to live on an English estate, circa 1879. And Tessa's leading man-a real-life Duke-is so handsome she can barely breathe, with or without the corset...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451411129 (0451411129)
ASIN: 451411129
Publish date: May 4th 2004
Publisher: Onyx
Pages no: 336
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Funny,
Comedy,
Adult Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Historical Romance,
Contemporary Romance,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
Tessa is a plus sized American who goes on an English TV show. The show is designed to show how people (a Duke and his family and their servants) lives in the Victorian times. Tessa got the job because she was a distant relation to an American who married an English Duke. Max, who plays the Duke, is...
I was expecting this book to be funny, and it certainly was. LOL funny in parts. I was surprised thought by how much I ended up liking Tessa & Max. For me, many times funny books have cartoonish or unlikeable characters that add to the humor but don't really engage you in the book. That wasn't t...
HILARIOUS! This book had me laughing so hard, I cried. This is my first book by this author, and it's been on my TBR for awhile now. Now I'm shooting myself in the foot for taking so long to get to it! This book isn't deep and there are a bazillion side characters that are hard to keep track of. But...
This bored me.There were some funny parts, but all in all it was a painful read and it was hard to make it to the end.
This was an interesting story, like a historical within a contemporary romance. It was told in first person from Tessa's diary with lots of humor. She played the part of a duchess with Duke Max and his daughter in a month long reality film set in 1876. The plot got a bit carried away sometimes overs...
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