- Paperback: 608 pages
- Publisher: M&b Publishing (July 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0263875555
- ISBN-13: 978-0263875553
- Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.8 x 4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 281 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,661,638 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Well written regency romance, Dec 2 2011
By Marshall Lord - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Unruly Chaperon. Elizabeth Rolls (Paperback)
This reasonably well-crafted Regency romance novel begins as the Dowager Lady Winter, a young and wealthy widow, is having a blazing row with the uncle who brought her up after the death of her parents but does not appear to appreciate that she is no longer his dependent.The setting laid out in the first chapter of the book is as follows.
Matilda Arnold had been born to parents who had married without the approval of their respective families, creating a considerable scandal: when those parents had then died, she had been raised by her uncle and aunt, Lord and Lady Pemberton, who had treated her with great cruelty and them married her off at eighteen to Viscount Winter, a man nearly three times her age.
Lord Winter had treated Matilda in most respects more like a favourite niece than a wife, though their brief marriage had produced a daughter, the Honorable Anthea Cavendish: on his death the title went to a cousin but he had been careful to leave Matilda and Anthea financially well provided for. So Matilda was rather surprised to be summoned to her ancestral home, ordered to chaperon her cousin Amelia at a house party hosted by the Duke of St Ormond, to whom her uncle and aunt are planning to marry Amelia, and treated as if she was little more than a servant.
After making it clear that she will not be treated as a doormat, Matilda agrees for her cousin's sake to act as Amelia's chaperon, although she has no wish to meet the Duke of St Ormonde again: back when she was a gawky teenager, shortly before her engagement to Lord Winter, the handsome Duke had broken her heart when he treated her kindly to her face but she overheard him apparently speaking unkindly of her to a friend.
But when Matilda and Amelia arrive at the Duke's residence with little Anthea in tow, the resulting intricate sequence of events is not what anyone had planned or expected ...
A little more sophisticated than the average book of this genre. It's not Jane Austen, or even Georgette Heyer, but this is an entertaining and amusing light romance.
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