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Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of her time in a version of Regency England where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. But despite the prevalence of magic in everyday life, other aspects of Dorchester’s society are not that different: Jane and her sister Melody’s lives still revolve around vying for the attentions of eligible men.Jane resists this fate, and rightly so: while her skill with glamour is remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face, and therefore wins the lion’s share of the attention. At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Jane has resigned herself to being invisible forever. But when her family’s honor is threatened, she finds that she must push her skills to the limit in order to set things right–and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own.
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Shades of Milk and Honey, Mary Robinette Kowal
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- Shades of Milk and Honey
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mary Robinette Kowal
- Publisher
- Tor Books
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 076532556X
- ISBN13
- 9780765325563
- Series
- Glamourist Histories
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Themes, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Love, Magic, Historical Romance, Marriage, Regency, Steampunk, Sisters, Historical Fantasy, Envy, Light, Deception, illusion, Engagement, Jane Austen, Glamour, Regency England
- Rating
- 3.5 out of 5
- Description
- Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a woman ahead of her time in a version of Regency England where the manipulation of glamour is considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. But despite the prevalence of magic in everyday life, other aspects of Dorchester’s society are not that different: Jane and her sister Melody’s lives still revolve around vying for the attentions of eligible men.Jane resists this fate, and rightly so: while her skill with glamour is remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face, and therefore wins the lion’s share of the attention. At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Jane has resigned herself to being invisible forever. But when her family’s honor is threatened, she finds that she must push her skills to the limit in order to set things right–and, in the process, accidentally wanders into a love story of her own.