Rose Lerner has woven a story of such intricacy and complexity that it’s difficult to say much more about it without including too many spoilers.
So when, for the first time in her life, someone pays attention to her rather than focusing on what she can do for them and tells her that it’s okay to want things for herself, she finds it both heady and rather bewildering. Now aged thirty and having been her father’s hostess since she was seventeen, Lydia has been the person to whom everyone goes when anything needs doing, and it’s clear that while she’s been looking after everyone and everything, nobody has really been looking after her. Nobody is more surprised than Ash when he proves to be the proverbial spanner in the works himself, and Miss Reeve shows a marked partiality for him instead of Rafe. Rafe will marry her and that will see him comfortably settled for life.
Lemeston, Ash learns about Lydia – a lovely, marriageable young woman with a sizeable income and a mind of her own and immediately thinks that he’s found the perfect solution to the problem.
He has spent the entire twenty-five years of his brother’s life looking after him caring for a baby when little more than a child himself, doing his best to make sure that Rafe had everything he ever needed or wanted… but as he’s always done, Ash puts himself second and determines to help Rafe to find a way to a better life.Īrrived in Lively St. He is no longer content with their indigent, ignoble manner of living and wants to settle down into a more “ordinary” life. (This was, of course, a period at which not everyone had the vote, and many of those who did expected some sort of financial recompense in return for their support.)Īsher Cohen and his younger brother Rafe are doing a bunk following their latest successful confidence trick when Rafe drops a bombshell. Lydia Reeve’s younger brother James has shown little to no interest in politics, which worries her no end, as she won’t be able to maintain the family interest without access to family funds. Lemeston, where the daughter of Lord Wheatcroft, the leader of the town’s Tories, is trying to work out how she is going to be able to maintain the family’s political influence in the town following her father’s recent death. While she sets her stories in the Regency era, she tends to move away from the glittering ballrooms of the ton and puts a different spin on them, whether it be, as in Penny, looking at a young couple trying to make a marriage of convenience work amid the problems they encounter in trying to put a run-down estate back on its feet, or, as in Sweet Disorder, setting a cross-class romance against the backdrop of the machinations and corruptions of small-town politics. Rose Lerner has been an autobuy author for me ever since I read her début novel, In for a Penny.
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