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Weekly knitting update: ( About half-way through the first clue )
Amazon sent me a three dollar e-book credit a couple of weeks ago, which I ignored because why would they just send me a credit? Surely it must be a trap. Then they kept sending me reminders so I finally decided to spend it just to stop the emails. But what to spend it on? The newly minted Booker winner? Or something else? Something else, obviously. As if I'm not going to read something with a cover as marvellous as this:
Warned by a Ghost by Barbara Cartland
Well. This was a turn-up for the books. The plot made sense. The hero and heroine were not irredeemably stupid. It was all... coherent. I mean, it wasn't good. But it made sense. More or less.
Our heroine is Sedela Craven. I misread Sedela's name and spent half the book thinking she was only a couple of vowels off being a perforated crispbread. But that's my problem. Nothing to do with her. Anyway, Sedela has long blonde hair and big blue eyes, but I feel that goes without saying by now. On the other hand, what does need saying is that Sedela is not a complete idiot. She turns out to be a good judge of horses and also a competent event planner, which gives her at least one more skill than any previous Cartland heroine.
Sedela is a distant cousin of the Marquis of Windlesham, who has been away for years, first in the war against Napoleon and now in London being friends with the Prince Regent. While he's away, Sedela often pops into Windle Court to visit her old nanny, Nanny, who now lives there waiting for the Marquis to have children. Today, she is horrified when Nanny reads her a letter from Nanny's niece, Lucy, who is a lady's maid in London for Lady Esther Hasting. Lady Esther is a rather racy widow, and she has got her hooks into the Marquis. Oh no! Sedela and Nanny agree that Lady Esther would be a terrible Marchioness and hope that the Marquis comes to his senses. On the way back home, Sedela comes up with a plan...
( Not a good plan, mind. )
Amazon sent me a three dollar e-book credit a couple of weeks ago, which I ignored because why would they just send me a credit? Surely it must be a trap. Then they kept sending me reminders so I finally decided to spend it just to stop the emails. But what to spend it on? The newly minted Booker winner? Or something else? Something else, obviously. As if I'm not going to read something with a cover as marvellous as this:
Warned by a Ghost by Barbara Cartland
Well. This was a turn-up for the books. The plot made sense. The hero and heroine were not irredeemably stupid. It was all... coherent. I mean, it wasn't good. But it made sense. More or less.
Our heroine is Sedela Craven. I misread Sedela's name and spent half the book thinking she was only a couple of vowels off being a perforated crispbread. But that's my problem. Nothing to do with her. Anyway, Sedela has long blonde hair and big blue eyes, but I feel that goes without saying by now. On the other hand, what does need saying is that Sedela is not a complete idiot. She turns out to be a good judge of horses and also a competent event planner, which gives her at least one more skill than any previous Cartland heroine.
Sedela is a distant cousin of the Marquis of Windlesham, who has been away for years, first in the war against Napoleon and now in London being friends with the Prince Regent. While he's away, Sedela often pops into Windle Court to visit her old nanny, Nanny, who now lives there waiting for the Marquis to have children. Today, she is horrified when Nanny reads her a letter from Nanny's niece, Lucy, who is a lady's maid in London for Lady Esther Hasting. Lady Esther is a rather racy widow, and she has got her hooks into the Marquis. Oh no! Sedela and Nanny agree that Lady Esther would be a terrible Marchioness and hope that the Marquis comes to his senses. On the way back home, Sedela comes up with a plan...
( Not a good plan, mind. )