Heyer specialises in historical romance, but what I like most about her work is that her heroines are never really milksops. They all have spine, and in this book there is spine aplenty! The heroine dominates here, so much so that there is at times little room for a hero. Having said that, it is delightful. Set in Bath, an epicentre of Regency Britain, it combines all the lovely detail of Jane Austen with all the fierceness of a Bronte heroine, written with the humour and brio of a twentieth century woman. She never makes you feel that her characters are out of place, rather that you have been allowed a sneaky look into the lives of real people with tempers and problems and dilemmas. This book also deals with the tricky issue of what to do with an older heroine, no longer of marriageable age, who clearly knows her own mind.
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