Friday's Child (by Georgette Heyer)

I love re-reading my Georgette Heyer novels. I was delighted to realise that it was over eleven years since I last read ‘Friday’s Child’, which has always been one of my favourites. I remembered the general story, of course, and the conclusion, but had forgotten much of the plot detail.

The heroine of the book is little Hero Wantage, an orphan who has been brought up by her rather unpleasant aunt. She is now seventeen, and her aunt is going to send her to be a governess in Bath. Hero is very...