Remember John Hughes’ 1980s high school movies? Ever wonder what happened to those misfit, working-class girls when they left town, grew up, and looked back on life since high school? Alison Kent’s latest book, Four Men and a Lady, reads as if one of those Hughes heroines got to attend her 15th high school reunion,…
Halfway through reading The Weaver Takes a Wife, I was tempted to stop and look again at the copyright notice, just to assure myself that I wasn’t reading a long-lost and recently rediscovered work of Georgette Heyer’s. This was a delightful read from start to finish, reminiscent of the writing that made me fall in…
A Girl of the Limberlost is a book that I have read over and over and over again, despite the fact that no one could call it a great book. Even I, who love it to death, have to admit it is very sweet and just a little too sentimental sometimes. So, why do I…
Regency romance. Lords and Ladies. Elegance, glitter and the haute ton. Been there, read that. Not if it’s a Carla Kelly Regency you haven’t. The Lady’s Companion flouts the conventions of a regency romance and tells a wonderful story in the process. Susan Hampton is waking up in a bare, cold house. Her father, Sir…