Miss Eliza's Gentleman Caller

Again I was impressed by this author's deft handling of two very unusual characters. The hero is quite satisfied with his life as a military man, until Miss Eliza totally disrupts things by drawing him into her outrageous scheme to prove to her father that she knows best. Each scene that unfolds draws this mis-matched pair deeper into trouble. But, the author manages quite skillfully to sort things out and let Miss Eliza and the general discover that they truly do love one another. A delicious read!

This is one of the funniest Regency novels I have ever read, although FELICITY'S FOLLY and THE UNSUITABLE SUITOR also by Marilyn Clay, are everybit as entertaining. Eliza's impulsiveness lands both herself and General Huntley, the longsuffering hero of this book, into all kinds of trouble. One funny scene follows another as the falsehoods and fabrications escalate. Very clever, a real page-turner!

This is a very fine book about a managing female who learns a lesson in love. The characterizations are strong, very believable and likeable. Eliza wants to teach her father that the woman he intends to marry is too far beneath him in both age and station in life. Therefore she spontaneously "betrothes" herself to an "old" man. But it is Eliza who learns lessons of the heart! This is a very entertaining and very funny book. Some of the comic scenes were so skillfully done that I was reminded of the very best of Austen and Heyer.