This book is light, frothy, silly fun! A delight to read and so very easy to just get lost in Penelope’s slightly off center world. Will she ever find a husband? She can’t go back home – her evil stepmother has told her she is not welcome any longer. Penelope is tutored in all things ton related and she is launched into society to complete and utter….disaster. Yes, you read that correctly, I wrote goat.
The Duke is all that is proper except when he dons his fake mustache (you will have to read the book to find out why he does that.) The Dowager Duchess knows just what she is doing by bringing such a free spirit into her household but she did not count on Lady Bathsheba – Penelope’s pet goat. The characters here are delightful we have Penelope herself, a poor girl from “the village” brought to Town for a season thanks to her dead mother’s relationship with the Duke’s mother.
These books are not to be taken seriously – they are farces and knowing that the reader just need go along for a very enjoyable ride. Wylde’s books – I read The Wicked Wager a bit ago (see my review) and truly enjoyed it. She holds a degree in English literature and adores reading and writing. She can cook a mean curry, and her idea of exercise is occasionally stretching her toes. What follows is a series of misadventures, love affairs, moonlit balls, fancy clothes, fake moustaches, highwaymen, sneering beauties, pickpockets, and the wrath of a devilishly handsome duke.Īnya Wylde lives in Ireland along with her husband and a fat French poodle (now on a diet). Unfortunately, her rustic finesse turns out to be as delicate as a fat bear trying to rip apart a honeycomb infested with buzzing bees. Thus begins our heroine’s tale as she attempts to tackle the London season with all her rustic finesse. The dowager, no less, has invited her for a season in London, where she will attempt to catch a husband.
Leaving behind the rural charms of Finnshire, Miss Penelope Fairweather arrives in London with hope in her heart and a dream in her eye.
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