K.J. Charles's Reviews > Listen to the Moon

Another cracking Regency from Rose Lerner, one of my favourite historical authors. This is a very gentle story, of a marriage of convenience between a superbly skilled older valet and a rather haphardard housemaid, and it's lovely. Masses of fascinating stuff about Regency housekeeping really underpins the story, making us really aware that the devil is in the detail. John's precise constricted existence and Sukey's yearning for something outside her circumscribed life are carefully, slowly laid out to us. A real portrait of a marriage, of life in service, and the difficulties and dilemmas of people who rarely get their own romance. And so much respect for the servants, too, the demands and complexities and nobility of their work. Absolutely loved it.