My Review: I absolutely adored this book and it’s character. Little Jim stole my heart, as did his love for the horses. Lucie is a young lady setting off to London from her Wiltshire home to find a husband. Her sister Sybella lost her husband in the war and so was a widow and a mother who cares deeply for her sister, as their parents were long deceased. In London they stay close to Hyde Park with Lady Godley. Lucie’s friendships with Freddie and Val are the lead in this story. Will there be a marriage blanc? Will Sybella find love again? All these questions had me gripped to this well written, easy read. Definitely a genre I am falling in love with.

The Marriage Season

‘It’s not a fair world I’m afraid. Beauty or fortune carries the day. You have the beauty and I the fortune, so there’s every chance we’ll succeed’

In Regency England, marriage is everything. For young widow Sybella Lovatt, the time has come to find a suitable husband for her sister and ward Lucie. Male suitors are scarce near their Wiltshire estate, so the sisters resolve to head to London in time for The Season to begin.

Once ensconced at the Mayfair home of Lady Godley, Lucie’s godmother, the whirl of balls, parties and promenades can begin. But the job of finding a husband is fraught with rules and tradition. Jostling for attention are the two lords – the charming and irresistible Freddie Lynwood and the preternaturally handsome Valentine Ravenell, their enigmatic neighbour from Shotten Hall, Mr Brabazon, and the dangerous libertine Lord Rockliffe, with whom the brooding Brabazon is locked in deadly rivalry.

Against the backdrop of glamorous Regency England, Sybella must settle Lucie’s future, protect her own reputation, and resist the disreputable rakes determined to seduce the beautiful widow. As the Season ends, will the sisters have found the rarest of things – a suitable marriage with a love story to match?

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Author Bio –

Jane Dunn is an historian and biographer and the author of seven acclaimed biographies, including Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters and the Sunday Times and NYT bestseller, Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens. She comes to Boldwood with her first fiction outing – a trilogy of novels set in the Regency period, the first of which  is to be published in January 2023. She lives in Berkshire with her husband, the linguist Nicholas Ostler.

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