![]() ![]() With someone much prettier and better dressed than Kathryn. Humiliation finally wins out over optimism, and she catches a bus to go home to her dreary apartment, only to see from the height of the bus just why her man never showed up: he is otherwise engaged. Her boyfriend invited her to lunch, and she has been sitting at their table alone for over an hour, the rosy dreams she started out with of engagement rings and white weddings and an escape from her dreary, dreary life have begun to whiff away into nothing. I won this book through LibraryThing's Member Giveaways – thank you to the publisher and LT. It's the latter in The Elsingham Portrait – apparently – and lots of fun. ![]() ![]() This review was written for LibraryThing Member Giveaways.One of the literary devices I'm always a complete sucker for is the character plucked from her own time and dropped, clueless, into another, whether through straightforward time travel (if there is such a thing) or some kind of sorcery. ![]()
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