MADCAP MISS

Rating:
Summary: Hilarious
Review: After losing her latest governess position, Grace Farnsworth --- disguised as a child to save on coach fare --- suddenly finds herself with no money and nowhere to go. Enter Lord Whewett, who sees in Grace's convincing disguise a way out of his own dilemma. He needs a stand in for his daughter on a very important visit to his mother-in-law, Lady Healy. The hilarity that ensues when Grace tries to humour the outrageously eccentric and domineering Grandma Healy is priceless. This is still my favorite Joan Smith regency and I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: Hilarious
Review: After losing her latest governess position, Grace Farnsworth --- disguised as a child to save on coach fare --- suddenly finds herself with no money and nowhere to go. Enter Lord Whewett, who sees in Grace's convincing disguise a way out of his own dilemma. He needs a stand in for his daughter on a very important visit to his mother-in-law, Lady Healy. The hilarity that ensues when Grace tries to humour the outrageously eccentric and domineering Grandma Healy is priceless. This is still my favorite Joan Smith regency and I highly recommend it.

Rating:
Summary: aaaaaa...not quite 5 star entertainment
Review: This was one of my first romance novels, and I was disappointed at its quick shallowness.
Grace Farnsworth is fired from her position as governess because her two charges were brats. She travels by herself to a female relative because she has no one else. Being a penniless governess, she masquerades as a child by rolling her skirt up and playing on her very petite stature in order to get the cheaper child fare on the coach down. Enter Lord Wentworth, who sympathizes with poor little Grace because he believes that she is the same age as his little daughter. He soon discovers that she is a bit older than he thought and quite destitute, as her relative is conveniently absent, leaving her homeless. He, however, needs help, too. His dragon of a mother-in-law, Lady Healy, is expecting him to present her with his daughter, who is too timid, frail, and shy for such an ordeal so...he left her behind. He needs a daughter to present, Grace is good at playing the child, and all will work out fine if Lady Healy doesn't see through it.
Well, Grace was a decent heroine and her growing attraction with Whewett is believable, but there was a bunch of capering about which seems to be expected in light romances like this. Lady Healy's no-nonsense demands and quirks are supposed to screech with Grace's strong-mindedness (which had gotten her fired from more than one position), but they just result in one shinanigan after another. ...makes you wonder what might have happened had Lady Healy not been such a sentimental heart.
Oh, and when you put two reasonably young and active people in adjourning rooms...you know the drill.

Rating:
Summary: aaaaaa...not quite 5 star entertainment
Review: This was one of my first romance novels, and I was disappointed at its quick shallowness.
Grace Farnsworth is fired from her position as governess because her two charges were brats. She travels by herself to a female relative because she has no one else. Being a penniless governess, she masquerades as a child by rolling her skirt up and playing on her very petite stature in order to get the cheaper child fare on the coach down. Enter Lord Wentworth, who sympathizes with poor little Grace because he believes that she is the same age as his little daughter. He soon discovers that she is a bit older than he thought and quite destitute, as her relative is conveniently absent, leaving her homeless. He, however, needs help, too. His dragon of a mother-in-law, Lady Healy, is expecting him to present her with his daughter, who is too timid, frail, and shy for such an ordeal so...he left her behind. He needs a daughter to present, Grace is good at playing the child, and all will work out fine if Lady Healy doesn't see through it.
Well, Grace was a decent heroine and her growing attraction with Whewett is believable, but there was a bunch of capering about which seems to be expected in light romances like this. Lady Healy's no-nonsense demands and quirks are supposed to screech with Grace's strong-mindedness (which had gotten her fired from more than one position), but they just result in one shinanigan after another. ...makes you wonder what might have happened had Lady Healy not been such a sentimental heart.
Oh, and when you put two reasonably young and active people in adjourning rooms...you know the drill.