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Summary: Sweet and rollicking traditional Regency romance
Review: A charming story, exceedingly well-told, with memorable and funny characters, set in Regency London. Harry Hawthorne, the feckless hero, has much to learn about women, and learn he does, albeit most reluctantly, with the rakish Lord Mannerly as teacher. Mannerly, bearing a huge (and ultimately trivial, even silly)grudge against Harry, decides he will despoil Harry's fiancee, Olivia Darby. Miss Darby, feeling neglected by Harry (and not realizing at first that Harry is masquerading as his own grandmother in order to keep an eye on and to chaperone Olivia!), is about to fall prey to the rake's intentions, but the day is saved just in the nick of time, before reputations and lives are foolishly destroyed. A lovely story, with a true Regency feel and flavor, harkening back to the popular Georgette Heyer novels that were once the standard for the genre. Suitable for young adult as well as adult readers.
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Summary: Charming and Very Funny!
Review: It was so wonderful to read this humorous new Regency. It is in the light-hearted tradition of past Regencies rather than the newest trend in suffering, serious, heros and heroines. And I, for one, cheer. You will laugh out-loud when Harry thinks up his scheme to keep his fiancee to himself. It was wonderful seeing him growing up as the novel progressed.
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Summary: A pleasing light comedy
Review: Other reviewers have summarized the premise of this book, so I won't do so again here. I found this book to be a very appealing light romantic comedy of manners. It requires a little suspension of disbelief, but what farce does not? The characters are engaging, and I thoroughly enjoyed the time I spent in their company.
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