Laura Matthews (1)

This was a fun sweet read. Clarissa has come down in the world, forced to leave the manor house and move into a small cottage in the village where she gives lessons in painting and music to local gentry. I liked her resourcefulness and her refusal to take the local lord seriously because she remembers him from when they were children. I found the romance a bit unconvincing for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, but there was a lot of enjoyable humour here: Clarissa's absent companion, Aria's recurrent bouts of disorientation every time she might be getting well enough to go home and so on. A plot reminiscent of Georgette Heyer, although she would have been even funnier.… (mere)