A Marvellous Light

A Marvellous Light (2021) Freya Marske (The Last Binding, #1)

Set in England in 1908

“You’ve been cursed, and you think this is a time to make jokes?”

Blyth shoved his sleeve down again. “I’ve been cursed, so I’ll make all the jokes I please.”

A chauffeur was not needed. Robin referred vaguely to friends of his who owned motorcars and had taught him the knack of it in Hyde Park—“Though the speed limit’s only ten miles to the hour, in the Park. And it’s twice that in the country! This should be a lark.”

“Most brutish behaviour.”

“And we are but feeble women,” said Miss Morrissey. “Woe.”

“Your sister is a magician,” Robin said, pointing out what seemed the largest hole in this story.

“Woe,” said Mrs. Kaur firmly, and Robin recalled what Miss Morrissey had said about the assumptions made by men.

Characters: Edwin John Courcey, Robert Harold Blyth, Maud Blyth, Miss Adelaide Harita Morrissey, Mrs. Catherine Kitty Amrit Kaur, Anne Gatling, Reginald Gatling, Len Geiger, Bowden, Martin Gunning, Lord Healsmith, the Grimm of Gloucester, Mrs. Flora Sutton, Mr. Makepeace, John Alston Baron Hawthorn, Elsie Alston, Florence Courcey, Walter Courcey, Clifford Courcey, Mrs. Belinda Walcott née Courcey, Charles Walcott, William Billy Byatt, Francis Miggs, Trudie Davenport, Annie, Mrs. Greengage, Dr. Hayman, Milton, Liza Sinclair, Mrs. Hathaway

Cover by Will Staehle

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Rating: 9/10

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