Being a big fan of historical fiction, I thought that the idea of the plot was really interesting. But the author's writing style was really dry and I couldn't really get into the story, no matter how much I tried. The characters were really ...read more
When your father is a man of expensive tastes and schemes but very little money, you soon learn to make do. So when Captain Fortune, a well-meaning but profligate ex-soldier in Regency England, tells his daughter Caroline that they are ruined, she ...read more
