This is my favourite after the Jacobite books. The characters are almost all adorable, and I like how, although it’s action-adventure all the way, it doesn’t rely quite so much on wild coincidences, or characters acting like idiots, as some of her books. The resolution is a particularly satisfying one – I couldn’t see how she could manage a happy ending, but she did so, with aplomb. '

I’d forgotten about the eccentric doctor. I’ll have to re-read it (if I ever get through Sir Isumbras; a whole page of phonetically written dialect to start with, plus characters acting like idiots as aforementioned, brought my reading of that to a full stop.)

I’d certainly be interested in your further thoughts on FotH. You do such insightful stuff on it; I’m basically in it for the h/c and the m/m love story so its nice to get deeper perspectives.