She does NOT get along with her brother, Geoffrey, though she does get along in a way with her sister-in-law. If Annis had to live under her brother's roof, well, it would be a different story altogether. It helps that in Annis' situation, she's wealthy enough to have her own house and household. Or at least she prefers to see herself as comfortable. But Annis is comfortable in her singleness. Spinster is spinster no matter if you're thirty, blond, and witty or wrinkly, gray, and stubborn. And in that time, the Regency period, thirty might as well have been sixty. Miss Annis Wychwood is almost thirty years old. This one has everything and more that you'd expect in an Austen novel: wit, humor, romance, quirky characters, as well as a few genuinely likable ones. Lady of Quality's first line may not sparkle as much as Austen's famous one, "IT is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." But just give it time. "The elegant travelling carriage which bore Miss Wychwood from her birthplace, on the border of Somerset and Wiltshire, to her home in Bath, proceeded on its way at a decorous pace." (1) Review by Becky Laney of Becky's Book Reviews
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