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Boldwood 4 August 2024 My thanks to the publisher and Rachel's Random Resources for the invitation to the blog tour |
In Regency England, twenty-seven-year-old Leonora Appleby is considered by many – herself included – to be beyond her most eligible marrying years. With her childhood home, Hasterleigh Manor, soon to be taken over by the heir to the land, George Lockwood, Leonora has happily resigned herself to a quiet life as a country Miss.
But life has a way of springing surprises and the return of the brooding war hero Earl Rokeby, presumed dead on the French battlefields, to the magnificent neighbouring Rokeby Abbey has the village atwitter with speculation. Earl Rokeby has returned, scarred in mind and body, with news for Leonora’s best friend Charlotte Blythe – news that will change everything.
Now Charlotte and Leonora must travel to Town for the Season and take their futures and fate into their own hands in the whirl of balls, parties and gossip. But will either of them return to Hasterleigh with a husband and a fortune, and what other secrets does the devastatingly dashing Alistair Rokeby have up his silken sleeves...
📖 My Review..
Resigned to her future as a spinster, Leonora Appleby, is content to live at her beloved manor in the pretty village of Hasterleigh. However, soon Leonora’s home will be given over to the new owner of the manor, Mr George Lockwood, and Leonora must adapt to a very different way of life. A chance meeting with the enigmatic Earl Rokeby, owner of the nearby Rokeby Abbey, and newly returned from the Napoleonic War, turns Leonora’s life upside down and in so many ways her quiet life is about the be changed forever.
This is a really lovely story with all the trademarks of Regency life which this author describes so very well. The characters soon steal their way into your heart and you can’t help but want everything to work for all of them. I especially loved Leonora, who deserved such happiness, and also her young friend Charlotte whose exuberance for life is about to be so challenged with news that will change her life forever. The sensible Nanny Priddy made me smile and I so wanted to see the finished result of her interminable knitting as she acted as chaperone to the young ladies.
From the gentle peace of an English country village, to the excitement of the grand salons of Regency London, A Lady’s Fortune is another Regency masterclass from this talented writer who brings us history, and gentle romance, in a story which lingers long in the imagination.
About the Author
Jane Dunn is an historian and biographer and the author of seven acclaimed biographies, including Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters and the Sunday Times and NYT bestseller, Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. She comes to Boldwood with her first fiction outing – a trilogy of novels set in the Regency period, the first of which, The Marriage Season, is to be published in January 2023. She lives in Berkshire with her husband, the linguist Nicholas Ostler.
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