May 2022

In most of Heyer’s novels the weather is fine and characters are rarely stopped from driving in the park or doing some shopping. But in Sylvester the weather at the … Read More “AFTER GEORGETTE: Weatherland (2016) by Alexandra Harris”

If you haven’t read it, I highly recommend you set aside and afternoon and curl up with Juliet Ashton and her letters to the people of Guernsey. The characters come … Read More “AFTER GEORGETTE: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society (2009) by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Burrows”

From her often difficult neighbours to her always unsympathetic husband, her rambunctious children, and the household staff she in no way rules, this anonymous diarist shares the minutia of her … Read More “AFTER GEORGETTE: The Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930) by E. M. Delafield”