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Lady Fortescue Steps Out (The Poor Relation)

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I loved this book and will probably read all of Marion Chesney's other works! I'm such a romantic history buff! I thought it was funny and entertaining and a delightful change from what some people think great readers should read - like books on the mating rituals of pigeons or something! If you love romance and like history, then I am sure you'll love this!

Although this isn't Dickens' Tale of Two Cities or Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, it is a funny and heart-warming book. I loved it! This is the first book in Chesney's Poor Relations series and introduces Lady Fortescue, as well as Colonel Sandhurst and the other poor relations who start up their aptly-named Poor Relation hotel.

I have long been a fan of Marion Chesneys books under MC Beaton, but this was my first venture into her romance genre, and I have to say I am hooked! By now I am on the sixth book of the series, and still as entertained as with the first. The characters are well developed and lovely, and the story, though predictably is fun and engaging. This is the perfect read for a cold wintry day, where you just want to stay home and relax. I highly recommend it, and the others of the series.

I had read a couple of Marion Chesney books to date, before reading this one. I had come to the conclusion that she is creative in coming up with unique situations, and that her romances are short quick reads (which can be nice sometimes), but that that her characters lacked depth. However, I obviously liked them well enough, as I have continued to seek our her books!

Lady Fortescue Steps Out was very entertaining, and in this one, I did feel like I knew the characters better!. (I think that to develop them any more would not have been possible, as the book IS short.) I REALLY liked this one a lot. I see that everyone else up to this point has given it five stars, and I think it deserves it!

In every other regency book I've read, the poor relation who is a focus of the book is a plucky, beautiful young woman who perseveres until.....she marries a duke or other nobleman and saves younger siblings or poor parents. The point of view here - that of poor relations of all ages who have nothing but poverty to look forward to and create their own solution - is unique and beautifully handled. Ms. Chesny is a wonderful writer who makes the reader feel everything her charcters do.

A must read for regency fans!

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I was so happy i could find this book, as Marion Chesney is one of my fav's and i could never find this book at a decent price.

Thank you so much!