![]() ![]() Why? Because between the “dire situation” and the resulting marriage there is a verbose half a book. I generally enjoy a marriage of convenience story, but not this one. The good old marriage of convenience trope. Speaking of the dire situation, despite the family’s effort to keep it all quiet, Edward ends up having to marry Lily to save her good name (and to keep her sister and niece from suffering ruin by association). He is a gorgeous rake who turns up kind when he inadvertently rescues Lily from a dire situation. Our Hero, Mr Edward “Ned”Galbraith, is a war veteran who refuses to return to the ancestral pile (I don’t understand why, as an Earl’s heir, he was not referred to as Lord, even without a courtesy title). Given that, why was it not common rumor, first at school then in Society after her come out? That is just a quibbling problem I have with this, among others. She and her sister Rose were sent away to school when their widowed father found out about Lily’s dyslexia (not given that name, but certainly described) where there was at least one fellow student who knew about her difficulty with reading (dyscalculia was not described, but I’ll assume it was present since about 40-50% of dyslexics have the condition). Setting: England, various places, but mostly London 1811 (prologue), 1818 (main story) Genre: Romance Lady Lily Rutherford is an 18 year old semi-literate heiress described as “curvy”. ![]()
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