Review: It's OK
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 10 8, 2012
It is not that I dislike the story - or I had not bought the book but oh boy it is such a very, very long story. It starts out great but goes downhill from there. What I miss is a thorough research from the author of the time the story is taking place, 1815, I think. The characters blunder round and round. Why do they not engage a Runner?  Why does Lady Grace saw her clothes herself instead of sending for a modiste - London is only a few miles away? What about fashion plates? How is the War Office involved?  I am not sure under which office spies belong but should it not be the Foreign Office? And how can the workers carry out their daily work and still take on night shifts? And finally, why did they not contact Lady Grace's man of business. Surely it must have been the same man her father had and since Lady Grace kept her father's account books - as I remember it - she must have known who it was.Altogether far too many hows and whys in this book for my liking.