regshoe

Ah, I love this one! Anne following the drum is amazing, and I do love the pining-within-arranged-marriage trope a lot, so that worked for me too (Heyer's A Civil Campaign is another one like that which I adore). And Thomas is such a fantastic character. But the scene that's always stayed with me is Anne when she's a prisoner and the White Lady she conjures up to save Bradford, that's such an intensely powerful bit of writing in so many ways.

My copy is abriged, but I've never been able to track down a non-abridged version so I have no idea what's left out.