|| A Question of Class || Escapade || by Marian Devon Rated: 3.0 Copyright: 1988 Reviewed: 2/6/98 by Isolde Wehr Regency Lady Venetia needs urgent a husband decides Lady Louisa Stroke, her aunt. Lady Lousia, a cheerful widow, hates it that Venetia accompany her the whole day. So she wants that her nephew Lord Gareth Wincanton comes to Bath and court her niece. Gareth isn't interested in leaving London. He is crazy about a beautiful actress and he sends instead an actor called Nicolas Forbes who looks nearly as him. They are making a bet that Nicolas has to play this "role" for a month. A mixing up begins. Soon the real Gareth realizes that the actress will not be his mistress. And then he reads an announcement in the newspaper about "his" engagement with Lady Venetia. He drives to Bath and meets his fiancée and he use the name Nicolas Forbes. Venetia likes her fiancé but she falls in love with the real Lord. She feels unhappy because she thinks she is in love with an actor. The chaos is perfect then Amabel the actress from London arrives in Bath and decides to take revenge on Gareth because he has not married her. A good mixing up story but sometimes to incredible. I could not understand why the heroine has agreed to marry a man she doesn't want and then she falls in love with a man who looks like her "fiancé".

Rated 4.5
Copyright 1989
Reviewed 8/31/97

What a wonderfully chaotic story!

Lady Heathcote, a widow, is alone with a very good looking man in a balloon as they cross the English Channel from France to England. What a misfortune! Neither of them wanted to do this. As they near Dover the balloon lands, but Lord Graeme Brett is wounded. At the inn people think Maria (Lady Heathcote) is the famous Madame Blanchard. Because she has no money she does not clear up this misunderstanding.

Lord Brett and Lady Heathcote are in a terrible situation. He doesn't want to go back to England because there is a fiancée waiting for him. And how should Maria explain that she was only in the balloon to save the little Pekinese from her sister-in-law.

However, this is not all. It begins a time full of white lies and chaotic tangles for them till it all comes to a happy end.

I like Marian Devon books very much because they are funny and charming.

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