regshoe

Yes, you're right about this being a comic one, in the mode of "Mr Rowl". I love Broster's ability to laugh at her characters without being cruel or mean-spirited about it—she's so amusingly kind. (Also something I like about Barbara Pym, another favourite author of very different subject matter).

Less well-known historical moments do present lots of opportunity for historical novelists, I think—Broster certainly does well with them. :)

I love it when characters from one of an author's books turn up in another—it's like the original writer's version of a stealth crossover, and so much fun to see a sort of fictional world being built up like that.

I felt that some of the stories were very typically Broster-ish, and some others...well, definitely weren't.

Ooh, that sounds intriguing... :D