{"id":937,"date":"2017-11-29T21:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T21:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/?p=937"},"modified":"2021-09-01T10:01:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:01:49","slug":"review-chemsworth-hall-book-1-violet-by-perpetua-langley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/2017\/11\/29\/review-chemsworth-hall-book-1-violet-by-perpetua-langley\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8216;Chemsworth Hall: Book 1: Violet&#8217; by Perpetua Langley [Trad]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"big450Box\">\n<div class=\"big450BoxBody\">\n<div class=\"big450BoxContent\">\n<div class=\"reviewText mediumText description readable\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-941\" src=\"http:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screenshot-410.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screenshot-410.png 458w, https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Screenshot-410-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/>This book was a delight from start to finish. Every character was a comedic masterpiece, from Lord Mulholland, deeply suspicious of anyone emanating from a different county, to Smuckers the butler, seeing himself as a knight of old, rallying the troops below stairs to ever greater feats.<\/p>\n<p>The premise is a simple one. Viscount Mulholland and his lady wife have managed to produce one son (Henry) and seven daughters (Violet, Rose, Daisy, Marigold, Lily and twins Poppy and Pansy). Now that Henry is at Oxford, Lady Mulholland instructs him to bring home one of his new friends so that she may begin her campaign of marrying off the daughters, in strict order of seniority. So Violet is to be paired with Lord Smythesdon, the eldest son of an earl. Since Violet is the academic of the family, and Lord Smythesdon considers education the domain of men, sparks are bound to fly.<\/p>\n<p>The tale of how these two overcome their troubled beginning, learn to appreciate each other and in time find their happiness is delightful, enlivened by the helpful or otherwise efforts of their two families, the neighbours and the servants. There is laugh-out-loud humour on every page, every character is both funny and yet very real, and the historical details were accurate enough not to trip up a self-confessed pedant like me. My only quibble is that the author uses \u2018shall\u2019 relentlessly instead of \u2018will\u2019, which soon grows tiresome. But it\u2019s a minor point. For anyone looking for a whimsical, humorous and sweet Regency (or possibly Victorian) romance, this is highly recommended.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"review-like\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"review-follow\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"big450BoxBottom\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book was a delight from start to finish. Every character was a comedic masterpiece, from Lord Mulholland, deeply suspicious of anyone emanating from a different county, to Smuckers the butler, seeing himself as a knight of old, rallying the troops below stairs to ever greater feats. The premise is a simple one. Viscount Mulholland [&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":[75],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review","tag-langley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3907,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions\/3907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marykingswood.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}