{"id":117,"date":"2016-05-29T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T10:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=117"},"modified":"2016-05-29T10:23:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T10:23:26","slug":"regency-review-two-corinthians-by-carola-dunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2016\/05\/29\/regency-review-two-corinthians-by-carola-dunn\/","title":{"rendered":"Regency review: ‘Two Corinthians’ by Carola Dunn"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"I love a good Regency romance, but I find it difficult to find any that aren\u2019t dreadfully silly, and historically inaccurate to boot. I don\u2019t expect every last detail to be perfect, but some things are terribly easy to check, like correct forms of address for the aristocracy, and it\u2019s a great irritant when the author hasn\u2019t even bothered. However, I have no such complaints here. There is a great deal of detail of clothing, and the language is riddled with contemporary cant, but it all felt very authentic. And while there is an outbreak of silliness at the end, it was forgivable.<\/p>\n

The two Corinthians (men about town) of the title are George Winterbourne and Bertram Pomeroy. Bertram having lost the love of his life to George\u2019s brother, is urged by his ailing father to marry soon. The suggestion is the elder Miss Sutton, Claire, eccentric and spinsterish at twenty eight, but suitable. George, meanwhile, becomes entangled with Claire and her lively younger sister, Lizzie, by chance, and enters into a pact with Lizzie: he will pretend to woo her to stop her dragonish mother from berating her.<\/p>\n

So George is pretending to court Lizzie and Bertram is reluctantly courting Claire, and\u2026 well, we can see where this is going, can\u2019t we? But even if the resolution is predictable, that\u2019s not a fault in a book like this. It\u2019s more about the journey than the destination, and here the journey is entertaining and unfolds gently and rather sweetly, with good behaviour on all sides.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s not much action, so those looking for highwaymen or pirates or spies should move swiftly on. Nor are there any outbreaks of uncontrollable lust. If you like Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, then this book is just the ticket. A pleasant, gentle read. Four stars.<\/p>\n

A footnote: I didn\u2019t realise it, but this book is actually a sequel to Miss Hartwell<\/em><\/strong>\u2019s Dilemma<\/em><\/strong>. It made things a little confusing early on as the author skated rapidly over the backstory, but I soon got the hang of it. However, it\u2019s probably a more enjoyable read if approached in the correct order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love a good Regency romance, but I find it difficult to find any that aren\u2019t dreadfully silly, and historically inaccurate to boot. I don\u2019t expect every last detail to be perfect, but some things are terribly easy to check, like correct forms of address for the aristocracy, and it\u2019s a great irritant when the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-dunn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}