{"id":849,"date":"2017-10-05T20:56:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=849"},"modified":"2017-10-05T20:56:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:56:59","slug":"review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/10\/05\/review\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;The Dashing Widow&#8217; by Elizabeth Bramwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1462358057l\/30108245.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"475\" \/>You don\u2019t read much about widows in Regency romances, with the focus very much on the unmarried ingenue or her slightly older independent-minded sister, so this book is a refreshing change. Abigail Merriweather is thoroughly disapproved of by London\u2019s high society, since she has the temerity to be a widow who doesn\u2019t know her place, and is always getting into scrapes. Worse, her money comes from trade, courtesy of her conveniently deceased husband. And when her friend helps to introduce Abby to London ways, the most disapproving of all is the friend\u2019s brother, the Earl of Gloucester.<\/p>\n<p>This is a charming and well-written story that had me chuckling. It\u2019s rare to find anyone who can emulate the lightness of touch and romantic tangles of Georgette Heyer, but this author can. There were a few Heyer-esque phrases that didn\u2019t ring quite true &#8211; \u2018up to the snuff\u2019 and \u2018outside of the enough\u2019, which should be \u2018up to snuff\u2019 and \u2018outside of enough\u2019. But otherwise, I noticed few mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fairly frivolous and lighthearted, and it\u2019s also very short (and stopped at 88% on my Kindle, the remainder filled with samples of the author\u2019s other books), but if you\u2019re looking for a quick and amusing read in the style of Georgette Heyer, this is one to try. Four stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You don\u2019t read much about widows in Regency romances, with the focus very much on the unmarried ingenue or her slightly older independent-minded sister, so this book is a refreshing change. Abigail Merriweather is thoroughly disapproved of by London\u2019s high society, since she has the temerity to be a widow who doesn\u2019t know her place, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-bramwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}