TABBY ROYCE has been trained as an apothecary by her late papa. On Papa’s death, her brother and his new wife, turn her off and she has to find any work to survive. This in due course leads her to Edinburgh where she becomes embroiled in the activities of a medical household where the master and his steward, CAL MORRISON, are anatomists.
So, what greater prompt can there be than one of Ulverscroft’s fabulous covers. This is from the library edition of A Maid and a Man which is published on 1st April and I’d be hugely pleased if you were to pop into your local library and place an order.
PLR payments will be made in March and may I also thank all the lovely library borrowers who’ve made mine worth receiving. I notice that of my four books currently in the system, Courting the Countess was the most popular. Maybe I’ll get into the Edinburgh regency sitting in my files and finish it!
As some of you will know the PLR site was compromised, so I’m not able to add either Christmas at Maldington or A Maid and a Man at the moment. Even so, if you do borrow or reserve either, I hope you’ll enjoy.
Meantime I’ve sent off a summer short story, a non-seasonal short story and I’m working on a Christmas one. At least I don’t have to hire in a snow blower/maker.
Literary trivia for March: On a walking tour of Exeter many years ago, I picked up a meaning of ‘Living on a shoestring’. People incarcerated in the local debtors’ prison would tie their shoelaces together and lower them from their cell bars. Outside family or friends would tie bundles of food and other necessities to the shoestrings. The felon would haul them up.
Anne
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