Tag: love

• A Sparkling Comedy of Manners

  The blurb on the back describes Love’s Shadow, by Ada Leverson, as ‘a wry, sparkling comedy of manners’ and, just for once, the blurb is quite right – the novel, a social satire on well-to-do Edwardian life, is light, witty, humorous, and very enjoyable. It’s another of those forgotten classics published in The Bloomsbury Group…

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  July 3, 2012

  Ada Leverson, Edwardian comedy of manners, love, Love’s Shadow

• Love, Housework and Happy Endings

  My 1996 Penguin edition of The RoseRevived, with its lovely cover paintedby Pamela Kay There are those who dismiss Katie Fforde because she is a writer of romantic fiction, but all I can say is, they don’t know what they’re missing. And I’m not going to describe her as a guilty pleasure because firstly, it’s…

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  June 13, 2012

  comfort reading, happy endings, Housework, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Katie Fforde, love, The Rose Revived

• Love and Secrets of a King and his Mistress

  Sex, love, murder, revenge, betrayal, ambition and hidden secrets are key components of all good sagas about feuding families – and England’s Plantagenet Kings provide enough drama for an entire library of such books. So here’s a round-up of three, which I haven’t got round to writing about before now.  All are set in the…

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  March 20, 2012

  Edward III, Emma Campion, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, love, Royal, secrets, Susan Howatch, Vanora Bennett