Kate goes to Sir Hilary’s investiture, goes through a little side door, and finds herself confronted with a perfectly horrible woman named Miranda, who thinks that Kate is actually someone named Thomas in disguise and tries to make her drink suspicious hot chocolate. Yes indeed, we are in a Regency romance novel with magic (the same universe as Wrede’s Mairelon books).
Except, of course, Aunt Elizabeth, who looks at me sideways and says darkly that magic is for heathens and cannibals, not for decent folk. He left yesterday for London, where he will be installed, but all of us expect great things when he returns. I suspect he was chosen because of that enormous library of musty old spellbooks at Bedrick Hall. Sir Hilary Bedrick has just been named to the Royal College of Wizards the whole village is buzzing with the news. Second, it’s set in England in the 1800s, though about thirty years earlier than F&N it’s also explicitly an alternate England, as the first letter makes clear among Cecelia’s talk of parties and calling on the vicarage is this news: Kate Talgarth has gone to London for the Season, and she corresponds with her cousin Cecelia Rushton, who is stuck at home in Essex. I’ve described this book before as “ Freedom and Necessity without the Hegel.” I think that’s accurate if a touch flip, but I would be falling down on my book logging responsibilities if I left it at that.įirst, this is an epistolary novel. This book was legendarily hard to find for quite a few years, and happily has now been reprinted in hardcover, with a sequel to come (details at a joint author webpage).
After The Gnome’s Engine came Sorcery and Cecelia, or, the Enchanted Chocolate Pot, by Patricia C.
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