A London Season

Author:: Joan Wolf
Published:: Signet, January 1981 ; 215 pages
Related titles by this author:: A Double Deception
Subgenre:: Regency romance
Setting:: Ireland and England -- Newmarket, London, 1810s
Main characters:: David Chance and Lady Jane Fitzmaurice
Sexual explicitness:: Fairly explicit, for a Regency
Keywords:: Intrigue ; childhood friendships, class distinctions, horseracing, sidesaddles
Reader rating:
Reader comments:: A stunning, deceptively simple Regency about two people destined for one another and separated by class and circumstance. Hard to find, but if you do, read it! ml (M.L.N., 6-2-97) Wolf uses simple, lucid language to tell a pleasantly romantic if obvious story. Her characters are not "deep," but they are not stereotypes either--and she captures them in strong, compact descriptive sentences and conversation. This is one of her best Regencies; she's since gone on to bigger and better things. (E.P., 1-4-97)

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