There were SO many past characters and so many characters overall it was hard to keep everyone straight. A lot of times it doesn’t matter in what order you read the books, not the case here. I guess part of the problem was I had no idea this was part of a series (White Tiger series). I’m trying to think of the things I liked. It started out okay, but slowly became a bit tedious to the point I started skimming an awful lot. She has received the Reader's Choice Award and been awarded the Holt Medallion.

Since then, she has published more numerous novels and novellas. She published her first Regency Romance in 1991. Their two daughters fondly recall a family jaunt (with bed and breakfast) in August, 1973: London to Pembroke to Chester to Carlisle to Stirling to Edinburgh to Hawick. For field research, she (and her spouse) repeatedly crisscrossed the island of Great Britain. The dialogue was charming, but the detail was forbidding: No mistakes! That's the watchword.įor library research, she amassed (and read) a library of diaries, letters, memoirs, yearbooks, etc., from the era. She reread them while living in Whitstable, Kent. She first read the Regency Romances of Georgette Heyer while living in Sidcup, Kent. An American herself, she is descended from the English (via her father) and the Scots (via her mother).

Jeanne Savery has lived and travelled in Great Britain with her spouse, an American Professor of British Politics.

The Perfect Husband by Jeanne Savery