Review: Excellent teaser/set-up for CITY OF JASMINE.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
What I especially liked about this little short, which takes place in l915, is that Raybourn ties in her Victorian Lady Julia series to this new Edwardian one by having Lady Julia's family members Tarquin March and his sister Perdita as secondary characters.Another more important secondary here is Delilah Drummond, heroine ofA Spear of Summer Grass, set in l923 Africa, post WWI.  In that book Delilah is a rather jaded and notorious socialite, but we had hints of what had made her that way:  the loss of the love of her life, Johnny, during WWI.So in this short, we find a happily-married Delilah and Johnny, with WWI now intruding in their lives, and the introduction of new characters Evangeline Merriweather and Gabriel Stark, who meet in the story.  Now we must wait forCity of Jasmine, coming in February, which takes place in the 1920s, to find out what happens to this new couple.  I'm very much looking forward to it.