The Reluctant Widow (by Georgette Heyer)

Georgette Heyer is - and has been for decades - my favourite ‘comfort’ reading. It would be easy for me to read my way through all her Regency Romance books in a year… but I prefer to space them out, so as to give a gap of at least eight or nine years between each re-read of any book.  I’ve just finished ‘The Reluctant Widow’, a book I’ve read at least six times before. The last time was towards the end of 2011, and I’d forgotten quite a bit of the plot.

The basic outline - which I recalled ...