Paperback, used good. Ordered from BWB for the birthday group.

Happy birthday!

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This book arrived last year but for some reason I didn’t investigate who had sent it! Now I know. Thanks very much Lamilla!

Reserved for elizardbreath

Not exactly what I expected. The first part of the book is a short romance and the second is a bit of a thriller. I liked the fact the characters were generally likeable but not conventionally so. I found it a gripping read.

A wishlist book going to elizardbreath for her birthday.

I'm looking forward to this. Thanks so much for sending it my way for my birthday!

Having only read the author's stories about children, I was not sure what to expect going into this one. Now that I'm through, I definitely prefer her as writer of stories about children!

The story wasn't awful---just the typical late Victorian Women's fiction—-how to be a perfect person in just three chapters! The main character is so good it almost kills her and the story could have been a third as long had the author not spent so much time building her up into an absolutely impossibly virtuous and selfless person---so many adjectives!!

I did love it that the story took an interestingly gothic turn a little over half way through and was pleased at the ending. Quite like a little Agatha Christie with a final twist to everything and then roll to the credits.

The story was ridiculously riddled with laughable lines. Here are a few:

“A silk handkerchief, daringly knotted” 😂😂

“Mrs Cupp fanned her face with a handkerchief of notable freshness.”

"He had liked Emily from the first, and now---it was an absolute truth that he felt a slight movement in the cardiac region when the carriage turned into Berkeley Square."

bahahahaha! Love it.