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That Tender Age: A Novella of Georgiana Darcy
A sweet friends-to-first love tale of mistaken identity, featuring Georgiana Darcy!
After the marriage of her brother and extended time with the Bennett sisters has strained shy Georgiana’s nerves to the limit, she accepts an invitation to spend some time in London with Caroline BIngley. She is determined to make herself over—shed her shyness for once and for all. A sermon about improving oneself through good works catches her attention, so she begins teaching music to impoverished girls at a music-school run out of the house of a nobleman.
Georgiana is assumed on her first day to be one of the Bingley sisters; she is too shy to correct the footman. The eighteen-year-old oldest son of the house, Cecil, longs to fight in the Napoleonic Wars but cannot due to his status as an only son. The burden of his fortune makes him very nasty and ill-tempered, and Georgiana shrinks from him. She later overhears a snide comment about fortune hunters with parents in trade from Cecil. This embarrasses her even more, but also intrigues her. In the sea of noblemen in London, her provincial fortune, while substantial, is much easier to hide, and she has never been mistaken for a lower-class person. She maintains the ruse.
Cecil is a lover of music, and a talented musician himself, and he is drawn to Georgiana’s talent as well as her shy sweetness. As she blossoms in this new environment, will the bloom of young love also develop?
After the marriage of her brother and extended time with the Bennett sisters has strained shy Georgiana’s nerves to the limit, she accepts an invitation to spend some time in London with Caroline BIngley. She is determined to make herself over—shed her shyness for once and for all. A sermon about improving oneself through good works catches her attention, so she begins teaching music to impoverished girls at a music-school run out of the house of a nobleman.
Georgiana is assumed on her first day to be one of the Bingley sisters; she is too shy to correct the footman. The eighteen-year-old oldest son of the house, Cecil, longs to fight in the Napoleonic Wars but cannot due to his status as an only son. The burden of his fortune makes him very nasty and ill-tempered, and Georgiana shrinks from him. She later overhears a snide comment about fortune hunters with parents in trade from Cecil. This embarrasses her even more, but also intrigues her. In the sea of noblemen in London, her provincial fortune, while substantial, is much easier to hide, and she has never been mistaken for a lower-class person. She maintains the ruse.
Cecil is a lover of music, and a talented musician himself, and he is drawn to Georgiana’s talent as well as her shy sweetness. As she blossoms in this new environment, will the bloom of young love also develop?
59 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 5, 2020
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March 4, 2022
I really enjoyed reading this book and how both Georgiana and Caroline Bingley were written in this book. It was fun to see this side of Caroline and see her being a supportive friend for Georgiana in this book even if she was still a bit self serving. I also really enjoyed seeing the relationship between Cecil and Georgiana evolve as we get to know him better. I hope to read more by this author in the future.
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