![]() Margaery has another: she wants to be Robin’s wife in all ways. Written in Heenan’s impeccable prose, Lady, in Waiting is told through Margaery’s eyes – and what a narrator she is! Robin, many years older than his bride, has one idea of what this marriage should be: in name only. A marriage of convenience, a compromise that allows Winterset, Margaery’s family estate in Yorkshire, to return to her while allowing Robin, who has rented it for some years, to continue to live there among his books and the isolation he craves. Robin is also a man for whom marriage is an unlikely union, especially in middle age, solitary and set in his ways.īut marry he has, to Margaery Preston, an unconventional young woman of intelligence and learning, at her proposal. ![]() ![]() Robin Lewis – a man who can handle the intrigue and diplomacy of the Tudor courts but prefers his books to people, is skilled enough with words to weave a web with them to save his life but can’t express his feelings, and is no one’s idea of either graceful or handsome – is by far my favourite fictional character from all the books I’ve read in the last few years. ![]()
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