Quicksilver Lady

by Barbara Whitehead

Quicksilver Lady is Whitehead's second novel. It has all the charm and descriptive power that typifies Whitehead's work. The characters have 'real blood' in their veins.The lady is a girl from the provinces called Arabella Hill, who persuades her married sister Caroline to take her to spend a winter in London so that she can sample the pleasures of the capital. Against a background of the pleasure-seaking world of fashionable Regency life the romantic escapades of an impetuous, warm-hearted young woman suddenly become a real test of her constancy of character.This is a sparkling novel of sentimental intrigue written with the same loving attention to domestic detail that was such a feature of Barbara Whitehead's first novel, The Caretaker Wife.

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1979

About the author

Aka Rosa Hill

Barbara Whitehead is a novelist of imagination and intrigue. The mysterious historical world that is a backdrop to her crime novels, is second to none in terms of atmosphere and descriptive mastery.

Barbara was born in Sheffield, UK in 1930. She now lives at Thornton near Bradford, though for many years she lived in York - the city in which her crime novels are set.

Reviews

[Janet · Rating 2 out of 5]

It fell apart. The interminal subplot about a legacy to a long-ago bit of muslin never made sense. The heroine seemed to have no sense of who or what she wanted in a marriage. Not a total waste of time but close. The author did include some unusual and pertinent quotations -- I always like that.

[Lu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Read years ago.