Bath Tangle (by Georgette Heyer)

I have liked Georgette Heyer’s light historical novels since my mid teens, and over the years have acquired them all, mostly second hand. I re-read them regularly, and sometimes the characters feel like old friends. I’ve just finished re-reading ‘Bath Tangle’, for at least the fourth or fifth time though I hadn’t read it since 2008.

The book opens with a funeral off-stage. It  is set in the early 1800s, when women didn’t attend either funerals or the meal afterwards. We meet the two...