Sir Philip's Folly

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Commotion reigns at the Poor Relation hotel when two unwelcome ladies create chaos among the established order of things!

Sir Philip Sommerville is quite the antique, but not too old to bring home a paramour: fat, vulgar and greedy Mrs Budge who, the other poor relations are agreed upon, has to go.

And then there is Lady Carruthers, a highly rouged widow who passes off her grown daughter, Arabella, as a school miss while setting her own cap for the young Earl of Denby, despite the fact that young Arabella is quite smitten with the dashing golden-haired earl! So once again it is up to the other poor relations to straighten out the course of true love...

Reviews

"A lighthearted romp by a prolific genre author. Chesney skillfully creates spirited characters, including the older principals, and places them in a believable period atmosphere."

-- "Library Journal"

"Sir Philip has committed many follies in the past three novels in Chesney's Regency series, the Poor Relations. Here, in the fourth entry of the series, he has fallen in love with a totally unsuitable woman who is eating the Poor Relations out of their meager profits. The ploy to separate Philip from his leeching lady becomes entangled with a plan to sponsor the coming-out party of a repressed hotel guest whose widowed mother is trying to keep her daughter out of the social scene in order to stay there herself. Amusing."

-- "Booklist"

Author Bio

M C Beaton is the author of the hugely successful Agatha Raisin and Hamish Macbeth series, both published by Constable & Robinson. She left a full time career in journalism to turn to writing, and now divides her time between a flat in Paris and a village in the Cotswolds very much like Agatha's beloved Carsely.