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Lessons of Desire (Mass Market Paperback)

by Madeline Hunter (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group (16 Nov 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0440243947
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440243946
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 11.7 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 36,430 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great story of freedom and trust set in Naples and London, 4 Oct 2007
By Helen Hancox "Auntie Helen" (Essex, England) - See all my reviews
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The cover of this book and its title might suggest that it's one of the run-of-the mill historical romances which is more about sex than anything else. However, "Lessons Of Desire" was a pleasant surprise in that there was a great deal more to it than a sexy romance.

The heroine of the story, Phaedra Blair, appears to be a confirmed eccentric and bluestocking. The illegitimate daughter of a proponent of free love, Phaedra doesn't bow to conventional society's requirements - she dresses oddly, wears her hair down, is 'close friends' with men and consequently is treated as a social pariah, even worse in some ways than a mistress. She has just become the proprietor of a publishing concern and plans to print her father's memoirs - however, within those memoirs she has found evidence that her mother took a lover before her death and that the lover was a fraud and tricked her with a gift of a 'priceless' cameo from Pompeii. Phaedra wants to find out whether her mother really had taken a lover and whether she was deceived before publishing the book.

Unfortunately for Phaedra there's more in the book than just the mystery of her mother's love life. Her father also repeated a story about the late Marquess of Easterbrook which suggests that he may have had his wife's lover killed. The younger brother of the current Marquess, Elliot Rothwell, wants to stop publication of the book, or at least that section, and so goes to Naples to try to persuade or buy off Phaedra Blair. When he meets her, however, he has to rescue her from some social trouble but soon finds himself in more trouble. Phaedra's unconcern for the requirements of society mean that she is often misunderstood and she also comes across as a very prickly woman obsessed with independence from men, even as she knows she might actually be missing out.

What's excellent about this book is the setting in Naples and in a small village on the way to Vesuvius. The descriptions of travel, life, the colours and smells of the Italian countryside are wonderful. We meet many different characters, all described well and believable, as Phaedra finds herself amongst a circle of people of which her mother was a part. The final quarter of the book moves back to London but it's always a great read with Phaedra beginning to understand more about her mother's principles and also about how other people see relationships and marriage, not as a cage or trap but as security and safety. Elliot is a great hero and although Phaedra sometimes seems rather annoying she feels like a real person who is trying to learn from her mother's life but also to understand the way that others think.

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5.0 out of 5 stars In London, Lord Elliot Rothwell informs his sibling Christian that he failed to find the manuscript., 30 Oct 2007
He learns from his other brother's wife Alexia that the owner of the manuscript her friend Lady Phaedra Blair is in Italy. Phaedra inherited her father Richard Drury's memoirs that have much of the Ton worried as it will expose many of them to scandal. Richard's partner in a small press Merris Langston was blackmailing people before he died Phaedra owns that too. In Naples Phaedra is stuck in her apartment under house arrest having caused a duel in which a favorite relative of the king was hurt. Elliot arrives and Phaedra begs from her window for her rescue. He succeeds but the local agent believes Phaedra and Elliot are engaged, and expects him to keep her out of trouble. Elliot asks Phaedra about her dad's manuscript that contains a passage on his father. He offers her money to delete it, but she refuses. She says a man sent another officer rumored to be his wife's lover to Cape Colony where he died. Elliot says it is a lie Phaedra says prove it and she will remove it. As they travels around Italy in spite of the manuscript they fall in love, but she rejects his offer of marriage. Having the female oppose marriage brings freshness to the sub-genre even as the relationship between the lead couple nicely evolves over the course of the tale his refusal to steal the manuscript or demand it when he legally can makes him an honorable person. Although the lead female takes too many ridiculous unnecessary risks due to her need to be independent, Regency romance readers will enjoy learning the separate truths about her mother and his father!!!!! And if you missed Tino Georgiou's--The Fates--I strongly recommend reading it.
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