Glorious, vintage romance in an atmospheric setting of Paris towards the end of the Great War. Sir Nicholas has been injured in action: he has lost an eye and a leg. Still a very handsome and virile man, he has nonetheless become disillusioned with life. Persuaded to write a book, he hires an apparently dowdy […]

What an absolutely divine read! Searingly intense, passionate melodrama with a wonderfully happy ending. Since there’s no proper synopsis of The Man and the Moment on Goodreads, I’ll provide a brief one here: Michael, a devastatingly good-looking and rugged aristocrat, is trying to avoid marrying his mistress, a married woman who’s about to become a […]

Red Hair, aka The Vicissitudes of Evangeline (1905) is a beautifully written, sparkling book. However, the plot is the equivalent of Elizabeth Bennet marrying Mr Bingley instead of Mr Darcy. If you can stomach that, you’ll enjoy this book. Or at least the first half of it. It seems clear to me that Elinor Glyn […]

The Career of Katherine Bush is a staggeringly lovely and enjoyable story. Elinor Glyn creates a heroine who becomes more likeable as the book goes on. Her main ambition is simply to “be a lady” – and one has to remember that in the era the book was written, there was a near-impassable divide between […]