Black Sheep (by Georgette Heyer)

Re-reading gradually through my Georgette Heyer books, I came to ‘Black Sheep’, which I last read in 2008. I had mostly forgotten the story, although it gradually came back to me as I reached the latter part of the book. As with most of Heyer's novels, this is set in Regency England.

The main character is Abigail (Abby) Wendover, a young woman of twenty-eight who feels herself past the age of falling in love. She is comfortably off, and lives in Bath with her much older sister Selina, and the...