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Is Number 67 Clarges Steet the unluckiest house in Mayfair? Every season the beau mondes of the Regency would hire a house in the heart of London's fashionable West End at disproportionately high rent for often inferior accommodation and yet Number 67 Clarges Street, a town house complete with staff, remains vacant from year to year. Could it be that it is associated with ill luck and even death? Something must be done so that the servants of this house don't lose their livelihood. Salvation show more seems to come in the form of Roderick Sinclair who confirms he wishes to rent the house for the current season. The staff is overjoyed-until they find that Mr. Sinclair is a terrible miser who is planning no parties. Furthermore, his ward, Fiona, though a dazzling Highland beauty, does not seem to possess one bright idea in her head. But it is Rainbird, Number 67's clever and elegant butler, who sees through her façade and resolves to help his mysterious mistress in whatever way he can. show lessTags
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Interesting in that the heroine is interpreted through other characters; you never hear her own internal voice. The first section is told from the point of view of her new guardian, an obviously unreliable narrator. Later, it's told from the POV of the servants, notably the butler. You hear more of the hero's thoughts than Fiona's. Glimpses of her internal thoughts are found in her actions, and the occasional spilling to the butler, the first time happening 2/3rds of the way through the book. Different enough.
I was very pleasantly surprised by this book. I forget how it ended up on my Kindle but I decided to give it a try a few days ago. I have never read anything by Beaton/Chesney before and I am not a romance reader. To be honest, I didn't even really realize this was a romance til I started it. But I thoroughly enjoyed Beaton's writing style--sort of breezy and fairly contemporary, no stilted "period" English-- and her humor. I will look forward to reading more in the series.
Il romanzo è un mix di umoristico/romance, senza troppe pretese. Ne avevo bisogno per "purgarmi" dall'arrabbiatura data dallo straziante libro della O'Neill.
Consigliato a chi ha bisogno di intermezzi leggeri.
Consigliato a chi ha bisogno di intermezzi leggeri.
This series of books (six, as usual) is about a townhouse that is rented out every 'season' (the time of the year when young ladies are paraded at all sorts of parties and balls, in order to acquire a husband). The servants are the highlight of the series, and I would highly recommend this book and the series.
Temi consunti ma una nuova freschezza. Gradevole
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M. C. Beaton's real name is Marion Chesney. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1936. She has written over a hundred books under her own name and other pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow. Working at show more one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer. She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive. Her title His and Hers made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Marion Chesney passed away on December 31, 2019 at the age of 83. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Miser of Mayfair
- Original title
- The Miser of Mayfair
- Original publication date
- 1986-05
- People/Characters
- Fiona Sinclair; Earl of Harrington; John Rainbird (butler at Number 67, Clarges Street); Mrs. Middleton (housekeeper at Number 67, Clarges Street); Angus MacGregor (cook at Number 67, Clarges Street); Joseph (footman at Number 67, Clarges Street) (show all 10); Lizzie O'Brien (scullery maid at Number 67, Clarges Street); Jenny (chambermaid at Number 67, Clarges Street); Alice (pretty housemaid at Number 67, Clarges Street); Dave (pot boy at Number 67, Clarges Street)
- Important places
- London, England, UK
- Important events
- Regency Era
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- Popularity
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- Reviews
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- (3.57)
- Languages
- English, German, Italian
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 26
- ASINs
- 6
