Grange book once, Mr. Darcy's Diary: A Novel , and found it to be an OK read. Since then, I've tried a few of her older historical romances and they are not, IMO, a very good read unless you have nothing better to do. This one is Edwardian and for that reason I thought maybe it would be more interesting than her usual Regencies. However, other than the fact that bicycles and Daimler automobiles and Edwardian fashion in clothing is brought into it, this could easily be set in Regency times. The romance here is tepid and the H and h internalize too much and misunderstand too much and all the dithering is very repetitive. Perhaps if there were some real chemistry between H and h, I'd cut it some slack but it was all pretty bland for me. There's also a mystery about a jewel thief, I suppose for added interest, but that was lacking in any suspense and had no uniqueness to it. Even when the thief is threatening our poor heroine's life I couldn't manage to care. More than anything, it's not really this plot that bothers me. I can get past that if the writing sparkles and the dialogue is witty. No luck here.