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Barbara Burke’s peripatetic life means she’s lived everywhere from a suburban house in a small town to a funky apartment in a big city, and from an architecturally designed estate deep in the forest to a cedar shack on the edge of the ocean. Now she lives on a tidal river in a house that was built before her country was. Everywhere she’s gone she’s been accompanied by her husband, her animals and her books. For the last fifteen years she’s worked as a freelance journalist and has won several awards. She was a fan of Jane Austen long before that lady was discovered by revisionists and zombie lovers and thinks Georgette Heyer was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. She lives by the philosophy that one should never turn down the ...more

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Recompromising Amanda

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The Grand Tour – Seeing The World Outside Britain

“Actually Charles, I came by to tell you I’ve decided to go away for a bit. I’m sick to death of town, and I’m sick to death of the country. I’ve a mind to explore Italy. What with Bonaparte’s antics, our generation never got the opportunity to do the grand tour. Now that he’s safely defanged and tucked away I want to see a bit of the world before I’m too old to enjoy it.” (Recompromising Amanda)

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It’s probably been thirty years since I last read These Old Shades. Though I liked it well enough it was never on my top ten Georgette Heyer list. And as the years passed I was worried that the age difference between Leonie and Avon, not to mention t ...more
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