Susan Ferrier: 3 books

Susan Ferrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary, Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal. Why, then has she been lost to history? On the 200th anniversary of this sharply observed, comic novel, it is time to rediscover her brilliance. 'What have you to do with...

The erotically charged relationship of Elizabeth and her much younger lover is placed in peril by a helicopter crash and a crazed ex-girlfriend who plots to destroy Elizabeth.   

“Life consists not of a series of illustrious actions; the greater part of our time passes in compliance with necessities— in the performance of daily duties— in the removal of small inconveniences— in the procurement of petty pleasures; and we are well or ill at ease, as the main stream of life glides on smoothly, or is ruffled by small and frequent interruption. ” -JOHNSON.