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When Miss Hannah Pym meets the tomboyish Lady Deborah Western on the coach to Dover, she is certain that, with a little guidance, Deb will attract many suitors--perhaps even her handsome neighbor the Earl of Ashton. Marion Chesney has won the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer. Martin's.
Author Notes
Born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1936, Marion Chesney has written over a hundred books under her own name and the pseudonyms Ann Fairfax, Helen Crampton, Jennie Tremaine, Charlotte Ward, Sarah Chester, and M. C. Beaton. She started her writing career while working as a fiction buyer for a bookstore in Glasgow.
Working at one time or another as a theater critic, newspaper reporter, and editor, she used her British background to write a series of regency romances set in England and Scotland. Some of her regency romances include The Folly, Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue, and Regency Gold. In 1986, she was awarded the Romantic Times Award for Outstanding Regency Series Writer.
She has also written two mystery series under the pseudonym M. C. Beaton: The Hamish Macbeth Series, which became the inspiration for a television show in England, and The Agatha Raisin Series, about a retired advertising executive.
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Reviews (2)
Publisher's Weekly Review
In another of her lighthearted Regency romps, Chesney follows Hannah Pym on her fifth adventure in the Travelling Matchmaker series that started with Emily Goes to Brighton . During a coach trip to Dover, the intrepid Miss Pym encounters the hoydenish Lady Deborah Western, who, dressed as a boy, is being escorted to a prizefight by her scapegrace twin brother, Lord William. While trying to keep her footman, Benjamin Stubbs, from taking part in a boxing match to recover his gaming losses, Miss Pym gives Lady Deborah some social protection after she is revealed as a female. When the earl of Ashton, an old friend of the Westerns' father, tries to exert some control over the twins, Miss Pym scents the potential for a match, the second she is maneuvering on the trip, the first involving her coach companions Abigail Conningham, traveling with her mother to a loveless marriage arranged by an uncle, and Capt. Beltravers, an Army officer still mourning his dead wife and child. Lady Deborah's transition to womanhood and the reappearance of an old enemy of Miss Pym's liven up the proceedings before all ends well. As always, Chesney's story is frothily entertaining. (Mar) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Miss Hannah Pym ventures forth on her fifth journey in the latest volume in Chesney's popular Travelling Matchmaker series. Voyaging by coach from London to Dover may seem a tame event, but with Pym along, the only predictable matter is that romance will surely blossom. When the coach is boarded by a tearful girl and her mother, a gruff military man, and a clergyman with a mousy wife, even Pym considers them "a dull lot." However, a boxing match, an old vendetta, a spiteful sister, and a pair of mischievous twins add sparkle to the story. ~--Denise Donavin
