Cecilia or Too Tall to Love by GL Robinson is a wonderful historical Regency romance with several forward-thinking characters. This book would make a fun book club selection. Topics might include education for women, body image, class division, unwed mothers, and independent thinking.
Cecilia or Too Tall To Love: A Regency Romance by G.L. Robinson Published by Independent on February 1, 2020
Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Regency Romance
Format: eBook, Paperback
Pages: 194
Note: this book contains Book Club Conversation Starters!
What can orphaned Cecilia Beaumaris, a too tall, too outspoken gentlewoman with no pretensions to beauty and no fortune, do when the school she has been living in for nearly fifteen years, first as a pupil, then as a teacher, is closed down and she has to leave? She decides to open her own school, of course. But she can’t touch her small inheritance until she is twenty-five, so she has to live temporarily with her aunt and uncle. But they don’t want her.
To get her married off, they invent a fortune she doesn’t have and she is besieged by fortune hunters. Enter Lord Thomas Allenby, a handsome, fashionable fribble, who has his own reasons for wanting to escape the marriage mart. He persuades her to announce a faux betrothal, but it doesn’t work out quite how Cecilia expects.
Against the background of early nineteenth-century London, with its fashionable Mayfair mansions, East End slums, and the development of public education, this Regency Romance is the story of how one woman seeks to improve the lives of impoverished girls by opening a school for them. The effect on her own life is beyond her wildest imaginings.
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My thoughts on Cecilia or Too Tall to Love by GL Robinson
Cecilia or Too Tall to Love by G.L. Robinson is a wonderful regency romance novel.
The characters are well-developed and show a great range of emotion and growth throughout the story. Belonging to a family of big & tall people, I am very aware of the stigma society places on body image. The author makes several subtle references to body image in a positive manner.
The author also highlights the class difference between the wealthy who want for nothing and the impoverished who have nothing. While this difference is an underlying theme, the story is full of humor, sarcasm, and romance.
I enjoyed the independence displayed by the heroine. That’s a refreshing touch in a historical romance. The hero does a credible job of supporting the women in his life while not infringing upon their freedom. I feel like his grandmother has a story of her own hiding somewhere.
My only wish was that the characters had a little more of their attraction featured and perhaps the pacing evened out through the middle of the book.
Cecilia or Too Tall to Love is recommended for all readers who enjoy historical romance and a good quick story.
I read this book through the Amazon Kindle Unlimited program and BookSirens
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Cecilia or Too Tall to Love by GL Robinson | Book Review
About G.L. Robinson
From G.L. Robinson:
I'm a product of a convent boarding school in the south of England in the 1950s and early '60s. You can probably guess I received an old-fashioned education. I learned a great deal about the humanities and practically nothing in the sciences. I understand Latin, speak French fluently and my German isn't bad. I read the Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English when I was 16 and Shakespeare is an open book. But the only science I remember is the ditty: Miss Cummings (our teacher) was a scientist, alas she is no more, for what she took for H2O (water) was H2SO4 (sulphuric acid). Not bad, eh? Words to live by.
I met my American husband while working in Brussels (Belgium). Then we moved to Bonn (Germany). I had three children in a foreign tongue. If you want to know how to say "push" in French and German, ask me!
I've lived in the USA for over 40 years, have seven grandchildren and the same husband I started with. We live in a small town in upstate New York but nowadays spend the winter in Florida. I need to sell lots of books so we can buy a waterfront condo! (laughs ironically).
I love my garden, telling my grandchildren stories and eating desserts. I'd give up a steak for a Key Lime Pie any day!
I began writing Regency Romances just under two years ago after the death of my beloved sister who was in the convent with me all those years ago. We used to read them under the covers with a torch after lights out. My books are dedicated to her.
Please check my website for a free short story, to listen to my first chapters, and read advice from the Duchess. She's great!
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