A Lady’s Guide to Fortune-Hunting
by Sophie Irwin
(HarperCollins, £14.99)
Iknow that Sophie Irwin once wrote a dissertation on Georgette Heyer—the queen, and possibly inventor, of Regency Romance novels—then it wouldn’t be hard to guess from . Here, too, we’re plunged deep into the world of early 19th-century high society, complete with bounders, upper-class twits, fearsome dowagers and ambitious young women on the
