My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin I recently reviewed this for heat magazine, but it’s so good that I want those of you not in the UK to hear about it too - So here is a bit of an insight and a more descriptive look into what I thought… The inside cover says: The evening of Cora Cash’s masquerade ball, nothing has been left to chance. Gorgeous, spirited and extravagantly rich , Cora is the closet thing New York society has to a princess. Her mother has devised for her a debut that promises to be te most opulent of the gilded 1890’s. The ball is the prelude to a campign that will see her mother whisk Cora to Europe. Mre Cash wants nothing less than a title for her daughter, and in Endland, impoverished blue-bloods are queuing up for introductions to American heiresses - and seem content to overlook the sometimes lowly origins of their fortunes.  Cora makes a dazzling impression, but the English aristocracy is a realm fraught with arcane rules and pitfalls, where there are those less than eager to welcome a wealthy  outsider. When she loses her heart to a man she barely knows, Cora soon realises that she is playing in a game she does not fully understand, and that her future happiness is the prize. My Thoughts: I really enjoyed this book, and thought about it long after I put it down. Although it is set in the 1890’s I never felt like I couldn’t connect with the character Cora Cash, which could easily happen with use of a different era. In fact her thoughts and fears spoke volumes to me. Overbearing mothers, partners that grow distant and cold and past lovers lingering in the wings - tales that I will never bore of hearing about. As a woman of the 1890’s Cora has crushing restrictions placed on her and forceful demands made of her. She deals with everything in such a manner that just makes me fall in love with her! I was taken into another time, full of secrets, desires and longing. Daisy Goodwin has created a fantastic world in her debut novel and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next! Delicious. 

My Last Duchess by Daisy Goodwin

I recently reviewed this for heat magazine, but it’s so good that I want those of you not in the UK to hear about it too - So here is a bit of an insight and a more descriptive look into what I thought…

The inside cover says:

The evening of Cora Cash’s masquerade ball, nothing has been left to chance. Gorgeous, spirited and extravagantly rich , Cora is the closet thing New York society has to a princess. Her mother has devised for her a debut that promises to be te most opulent of the gilded 1890’s.

The ball is the prelude to a campign that will see her mother whisk Cora to Europe. Mre Cash wants nothing less than a title for her daughter, and in Endland, impoverished blue-bloods are queuing up for introductions to American heiresses - and seem content to overlook the sometimes lowly origins of their fortunes. 

Cora makes a dazzling impression, but the English aristocracy is a realm fraught with arcane rules and pitfalls, where there are those less than eager to welcome a wealthy  outsider. When she loses her heart to a man she barely knows, Cora soon realises that she is playing in a game she does not fully understand, and that her future happiness is the prize.

My Thoughts:

I really enjoyed this book, and thought about it long after I put it down. Although it is set in the 1890’s I never felt like I couldn’t connect with the character Cora Cash, which could easily happen with use of a different era. In fact her thoughts and fears spoke volumes to me. Overbearing mothers, partners that grow distant and cold and past lovers lingering in the wings - tales that I will never bore of hearing about. As a woman of the 1890’s Cora has crushing restrictions placed on her and forceful demands made of her. She deals with everything in such a manner that just makes me fall in love with her!

I was taken into another time, full of secrets, desires and longing. Daisy Goodwin has created a fantastic world in her debut novel and I can’t wait to see what she comes up with next! Delicious.