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|title=The Lady Most Likely

|sort=Lady Most Likely

|borrow=Maybe

|isbn=9780749957766

|pages=372

|publisher=Piatkus

|date=May 2012

|summary=A historical novel, created from three connected novellas by different authors, with unconvincing characters and a predictable plot.

}}

Hugh, the Earl of Briarly, has acknowledged his mortality after a nasty accident, and has decided to take a wife. Not being a very sociable person - he likes horses better than people - he asks his married sister Carolyn to produce a list of eligible young ladies. She does so, and then invites them and various other friends to a house party.

My personal favourite historical novelist is Georgette Heyer, whose research was excellent and whose characters usually behave much more circumspectly. If you want something lighter in this genre, [[Lady Farquhar's Butterfly by Beverley Eikli]] isn't a bad read - and if you like a raunchy romping style, there's a series including [[Duchess by Night by Eloisa James]] who wrote the final section of 'The Lady Most Likely'.

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