{"id":5695,"date":"2024-10-28T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=5695"},"modified":"2024-10-28T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T16:15:14","slug":"review-the-undaunted-by-kate-archer-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2024\/10\/28\/review-the-undaunted-by-kate-archer-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Undaunted by Kate Archer (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"The third part of this series, and the routine is well established now. An unlikely debutante is chosen to make her entrance to society under the aegis of one of six ladies who had no daughter of their own. Said debutante gets into a multitude of trouble, falls out with the hero (a relative of the sponsoring lady) who then rescues her from even worse trouble and a happy ending hoves into view.<\/p>\n

In this episode, the young lady is Miss Caroline Upton, daughter of a baron more interested in his stud and horseracing, and she finds herself sponsored by Lady Easton because Lord Easton (and the Prince Regent, no less) incurred a gambling debt. There\u2019s the usual business about getting the girl kitted out for society, and then they\u2019re off to Brighton, since the main season is over. Here, Caroline is unwittingly drawn into the Prince Regent\u2019s rackety set, in peril of her reputation, while Lady Easton and her cronies set about keeping her respectable.<\/p>\n

As always with this author, the humour is well to the fore, with Lady Easton and her nephew both incredibly buttoned up and driven by routine, a butler who\u2019s just as much a stickler and a lady\u2019s maid who\u2019s delightfully subversive, and the cause of Caroline getting into trouble on multiple occasions. The joy of this book is seeing the nephew, Lord Bertridge, gradually unravelling as he becomes reluctantly embroiled in Caroline\u2019s affairs.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all jolly good fun, and if there is a certain slackness in historical accuracy, who cares? It\u2019s so much fun, I can\u2019t give it less than five stars.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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