An Affair of Interest

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Summary: Metzger at her most endearing
Review: If you like the madcap minx that Heyer so cleverly placed on the Regency fiction stage, then you will adore Miss Sydney Lattimore and her hilarious adventures.

This is the story of two sisters of undeniably good breeding, living on a financial knife edge and facing a bleak future. In an attempt to sort out her family's woes, Sydney falls in with some notorious moneylenders and card cheats. All of this is to raise the necessary cash for a season for her beautiful elder sister, Winifred.

Viscount Mayne, heir to the Duke of Mayne, meets Sydney on the doorstep of said moneylenders on an errand of mercy to dig his younger brother out of gambling troubles. Following a misunderstanding, these two commence a series of adventures through the ensuing season as Mayne plucks Sydney out of one near scandal after another.

Add in the usual Metzger complement of servants, animals, villains and eccentric family members and her tried and tested formula scores a real hit.

I really enjoyed this old title - read in one sitting and much chuckled over. The chapter titles are alone worth the price of admission! Except for failing to get her ducal family correctly titled, this story is nearly perfect. If you like genuine farce told with a light hand, then this is highly recommended.