The Corinthian (by Georgette Heyer)

I love re-reading Georgette Heyer’s novels. Even though I’ve read them - the historical romance ones, anyway - at least four or five times each, I’ve always forgotten most of the details by the time I re-read six or seven years later. That was the case with ‘The Cornithian’, which I’ve just finished reading for what is, I think, the sixth time. The last time I read it was in July 2016.

I was a bit surprised, at first, how little I recalled in the first few chapters. We meet Sir Richard Wyndham, ...