Cecily (by Clare Darcy)

(Amazon UK link) According to the front of my copy of Clare Darcy’s novel ‘Cecily’, I acquired it in 1990 and re-read it in 1997. I don’t think I have read it since then. So I had entirely forgotten the story. Clare Darcy is the only writer I’ve found whose ‘Regency romance’ books feel as authentic as Georgette Heyer’s, and I’m pleased that, at last, I’ve decided to re-read the ones on my shelves.
‘Cecily’ opens with a scene at the theatre. Mr Robert Ranleigh arrives towards the end of the second ...