Review: Wonderful!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 2, 2013
Lizzie Church is an author to watch. She writes what are generally referred to as "traditional" Regencies, with well drawn characters and satisfying plots layered over the manners and morals of the time. What sets her work apart is the prose. Ms. Church is a writer - a real writer. There's no stumbling, no misused vocabulary, no forced pomposity or wooden dialogue. I think "Mr. Forster's Fortune" is her best work so far. A sample:"I had hoped the mail would be more than adequate for a simple journey to Bath, but I find myself spectacularly wrong, as usual. And now, see where it's got us after all - the wretched guard riding off with the mailbag and leaving the rest of us stuck here like so many castaways in some God-forsaken inn." And so we are introduced to Mr. Robert  Forster, caught in a snowstorm and observed from the shelter of her widow's veil by Lady Cecily  Seymour. How and why their relationship develops, falls apart, and re-establishes itself is the subject of the novel.My only regret is the length of Ms. Church's work. I do wish she could give me 300 pages to enjoy instead of 160.If you enjoy fine writing, you won't be disappointed with this author's work.