Felicities Maximized: Being Memoirs by Clorinda Cathcart (that was a Lady of the Town for some several years, and is now elevat’d to aristocratick rank)

The Comfortable Courtesan #12

by L.A. Hall

Shaken by her action in thwarting the malign intentions of Mr R- O-, and saddened by the breach this has caused in her friendship with Sandy, Clorinda has fled to Naples with the Contessa, leaving matters in Town out of her hands. Can matters among her set get along without her? Can her friendship with Sandy ever be repaired?

332 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 30, 2018

Reviews

[Sadie Slater · Rating 5 out of 5]

Felicities Maximized is the last of the Comfortable Courtesan series (although since its publication last year, L.A. Hall has also published two volumes of 'Clorinda's Circle', supplementary stories set post-canon and/or focusing on other points of view - I reviewed A Man of Independent Mind here - and a third is due out later this month). At the start of the book, we find Clorinda in Naples where she is trying to put the unpleasant events that ended Invited Everywhere behind her; the novel covers her sojourn in Italy, journey home and a round of parties, balls and visits which results in all of the current loose ends in her circle being neatly tied up (including a very Shakespearean ending for one of her antagonists). It's as delightful and full of kindness and diversity as the rest of the series; I have bought hard copies of all of them, because I know that they will be comfort reads I'll return to again and again.