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MY THOUGHTS AND BOOK REVIEW

This book is beautifully written by Jane Dunn and is a story of two sisters Lucie Carey and Sybella Lovatt set in the humorous time of regency England. Lucie rode horses and they lived in the Shotten Hall neighborhood trespassing the grounds for the last four years. Lucie was a fair-haired beauty with blue eyes but strong too. Lucie was not only charming and pretty, she was an accomplished dancer- she knew both to waltz and play piano-forte. She was a fearless rider and could handle a team of horses. Sybella became a widow within two months of married life while in service in the peninsular war against Napolean. Captain Lovatt, Sybella's husband was wounded in the battle of Sahagun when his favorite horse was shot from under him. Leaving Sybella and their son Baby James in grief. 

Once Lucie was in her neighborhood trespassing in the Shotten hall woods, and she finds Mr. Freddie Lynwood on road under a fallen tree branch, he was barely twenty.  Lucie and Sybella help the young man to fix his left leg broken with Dr. Bristow's help. Young Freddie Lynwood was a handsome, well-bred earl.  Sybella Lovatt spent her time in the Orchard gathering apples and honey. Sybella has been very protective of her younger sister. But Lucie and James were the people she loved the most in the world and she longed to see her sister settled with her own home and family. Sybella found her sister Lucie to be very beautiful, competent, and brave. They get to meet Mr Antony Brabazon who is Freddie's Guardian. The Carey sisters were acquainted with old Brabazon when they were small by their father. Mr . Lynwood invites the sisters to London for the season. Will their paths cross in London? What happens to their romantic relationships and flirtatious pretenses there? When they all meet is a delightful splendid read until the happy ending of the novel. Will the Carrey/Lovatt sisters find a suitable match? Will Sybella marry again as her sister Lucie wanted her to marry again and have another child? Will Lucie find a good husband with a respectable estate during the season in London as they stay with Lady Godley? 






Book Description

‘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?






Sunday Times bestselling author Jane Dunn brings the Regency period irresistibly to life in a page-turning novel packed with surprising revelations, which all comes wittily, gloriously, good in the end.  Perfect for fans of Gill Hornby, Janice Hadlow, Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer and anyone with a Bridgerton-shaped hole in their lives.

'Jane Dunn’s THE MARRIAGE SEASON gives all the immersive pleasure of Georgette Heyer’s brilliantly confected Regency novels, in a sublime alternative world of joy. Bridgerton look out!' Melanie Reid, The Times




 

About the Author



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, The Marriage Season, is to be published in January 2023. She lives in Berkshire with her husband, the linguist Nicholas Ostler.




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Thanks to NetGalley and Boldwood Publishers for an advance copy for my honest review. 

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