What Fiction are you reading this week, July 17, 2022?

[Jilly_in_VA]

25. Just finished

Smoke in the Wind, by Philip Booker, which was a good mystery story, well conceived but rather poorly executed and full of the kind of editing errors that drive one nuts. In his afterword he said he passed it on to a copy editor, but she did a rather sloppy job, IMNSHO.

Now reading Nanny on my other iPad, and the name of the author escapers me at the moment. I could go look but it's upstairs and I'm too lazy (I'm taking a break from cleaning the kitchen). It's quite a good story of the romantic fiction type, beginning with a young middle-class woman in late Victorian times who is forced to go into service because her father has run off with a neighbor and someone has to support the mother and young sister. She begins as a between-stairs maid (a "tweeny&quot but through a series of circumstances has just become the nanny to the young children of the house, and that's as far as I've gotten. Quite good so far, good escapist lit and well written.