Indiscretion
By (Author) Jude Morgan
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Review
15th July 2005
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
384
Width 151mm, Height 30mm, Spine 232mm
571g
When your father is a man of expensive tastes and schemes but very little money, you soon learn to 'make do'. So when Caroline Fortune's prodigal father finally admits to losing all they possess, she automatically starts seeking employment as a governess. Her father, however, has far grander designs for his daughter...
Caroline is to become the companion of the formidable (but extremely wealthy and childless) Mrs Catling. Caroline herself is uncomfortable with the plan but makes the most of this introduction to polite society and soon her beauty and intelligence attract the attentions of male admirers. But, much to her horror, she is just as quick to discover that love and romance are not what some 'gentlemen' seek.Surrounded by people with an alarming readiness to reveal each other's confidences, Caroline is exasperated to find herself unjustly implicated in their indiscretions. But will Miss Fortune be able to avoid losing her reputation without losing her head And will she realise that there is at least one good man amongst the genteel set who is more than willing to take her side and, indeed, her fancyWith its lively and engaging heroine, its attractively wry love-interest, and its cast of well-drawn secondary characters, it is reminiscent of a good Georgette Heyer novel - Daily Mail
With elegance and deftness, Jude Morgan recreates the convoluted games of love, status and fortune in Regency England. A rich tale of a journey into society - Good HousekeepingJude Morgan was born and brought up in Peterborough on the edge of the Fens and was a student on the University of East Anglia MA Course in Creative Writing under Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter.