![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Ha! For once I am ahead of the game -- I've read this one, and I enjoyed it. This is "Georgette Heyer Lite" writing, a sweet Regency from early in the career of writer Madeleine Robins. You can enjoy her fine hand at characterization and word choice without the darkness of her great Regency Noir books about Sarah Tolerance, Agent of Inquiry.
Currently available only at Book View Cafe, My Dear Jenny tells about one of those sisters who slips through the cracks -- the ones without a decent dowry, whose parents decide up front that they will be the spinster aunt forever taking care of someone else's children. Our heroine doesn't even have her own sister looking out for her, a large hole in what her family situation might be. She is content living with an aunt and her brood, and has several good friends, one of whom married well and asks her to London to help support HER sister who is getting married in a whirl.
However, nothing ends up the way it starts out, from Jenny getting stuck for weeks behind a quarantine in an inn to her becoming an impromptu shepherdess for a naive young woman who nearly ran away with a fortune-hunting rake. Before it is over, her own unwieldy name has been shortened to "Jenny," she's been invited as a house guest among the rich and famous, and her backup in this adventure turns out to be a retired military nabob and his nephew.
Does Jenny get her own happily-ever-after? You'll have to read it to find out! At $3.99 it will be excellent beach reading! Here's a sample.
Currently available only at Book View Cafe, My Dear Jenny tells about one of those sisters who slips through the cracks -- the ones without a decent dowry, whose parents decide up front that they will be the spinster aunt forever taking care of someone else's children. Our heroine doesn't even have her own sister looking out for her, a large hole in what her family situation might be. She is content living with an aunt and her brood, and has several good friends, one of whom married well and asks her to London to help support HER sister who is getting married in a whirl.
However, nothing ends up the way it starts out, from Jenny getting stuck for weeks behind a quarantine in an inn to her becoming an impromptu shepherdess for a naive young woman who nearly ran away with a fortune-hunting rake. Before it is over, her own unwieldy name has been shortened to "Jenny," she's been invited as a house guest among the rich and famous, and her backup in this adventure turns out to be a retired military nabob and his nephew.
Does Jenny get her own happily-ever-after? You'll have to read it to find out! At $3.99 it will be excellent beach reading! Here's a sample.
