B Reviews / Book ReviewsCommoner Aristocracy pairing / England / Historical / Regency / Weaver series / working class4 Comments
A duke in disguise . . . a damsel in distress . . . a match made in—Manchester? When 23-year-old Theodore Radney becomes the Duke of Reddington after his father dies, the weight of his new responsibilities is enough to send him into a panic. Theo soon accumulates a pile ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsContemporary / sexy / working class4 Comments
Tyler Jacobson has a plan for everything—except how to handle his completely annoying, utterly frustrating, and totally sexy upstairs neighbor. He couldn’t care less if Everly Ribinski thinks he’s equally irritating—until he discovers she’s the only one who can help him land a business deal that will finally make him ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews1980s / England / London / slice of life / working class3 Comments
A London hairdresser’s life begins to change dramatically when he meets two very different women at a party in this delightful social comedy. Thirty-one-year-old Gavin Lamb is a shy hairdresser in London’s West End. Self-educated, he likes Mozart and can quote Tolstoy, but being something of a late bloomer, he ... more >
B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Readsclass differences / England / Historical / Humor / social unrest / working class / World War II5 Comments
An unconventional parlor maid upends the lives of an aristocratic family in New York Times–bestselling author Margery Sharp’s delightful comedy of manners set in England before the onset of World War II Cluny Brown has committed an unforgivable sin: She refuses to know her place. Last week, she took herself ... more >
C Reviews18th-century / class-difference / England / Georgian / Historical / London / theater / working class17 Comments
SHE’S TAKING CHARGE Prim, proper, and thrifty, Eve Dinwoody is all business when it comes to protecting her brother’s investment. But when she agrees to control the purse strings of London’s premier pleasure garden, Harte’s Folly, she finds herself butting heads with an infuriating scoundrel who can’t be controlled. HE’S ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended ReadsContemporary romance / musician / Small Town Romance / working class16 Comments
Dear Sonya Clark: I bought this novel on an impulse after reading your tweets about not seeing the small town life you knew represented much in the small-town romances you’ve read (even though you enjoyed the books). Most of the year I live in a not-wealthy state with a lot of small towns ... more >