Miss Isadora Delafield may be an heiress, but her life is far from carefree. All opinions expressed in this review are my own.Today I’m continuing my ‘ reviews from the teetering TBR pile‘ with the two last books I still need to review for Jen Turano – which also happen to be the first two books in the American Heiresses series – Flights of Fancy & Diamond in the Rough. If you’re in the mood for a lighthearted laugh, check out this Gilded Age novel, the first in Turano’s new series, American Heiresses.ĭisclosure: I received a complimentary review copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley. In characteristic Jen Turano fashion, this novel delights in the ridiculous–the tumble down a hill into a pile of soft green leaves that turn out to be poison ivy (twice), the tumble into the lake to save a fearless toddler and drench our main characters’ clothes (thrice), the cow named Buttercup who won’t stay out of the living room (too many times to count), and a young lady maintaining her disguise by concocting a false identity, wearing the ugliest spectacles imaginable, and taking obscenely large mouthfuls of cake. Determined to become a competent housekeeper and abandon her entitled upbringing, Izzie finds the joys of small town life and discovers that Ian McKenzie, a rising attorney in the Pittsburgh labor scene, might be just the man for her. What follows is a humorous farce as Izzie learns to wash laundry, cook biscuits, chase off goats, and force four orphan children to take an unwanted bath. Little does she know that a rural housekeeper is expected to have many more skills than the ability to order servants around.
To avoid the attentions of a lecherous duke twice her age, Izzie flees to the farm country of Pennsylvania and applies for a position as housekeeper on Ian McKenzie’s old farm. Isadora Delafield is one of the richest heiresses in New York, but her mother will stop at nothing less than a title for her daughter.
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