The Pleasure of Her Company: Mrs Dashwood's Story by Hines, Sallianne Format: Trade PaperbackPublished by Grasslands Press, 2023 This Sense & Sensibility sequel is a mature coming-of-age adventure and clean romance that includes some of literature’s most beloved Regency characters, along with a new cast of friends young and old. WITH DAUGHTERS EILINOR AND MARIANNE WELL-MARRIED, widow Francine Dashwood’s thoughts turn to marriage for young Margaret. But Francine’s visiting widowed sister Emmeline has other plans and suggests they also seek husbands for themselves. Emmeline is independent and outgoing and very unlike Francine, who always doubted her own ability in the world at large and had lived in the shadow of her charismatic husband. A journey to the south coast of Devonshire throws the ladies into the company of wildly attractive Admiral Tennant, recently widowed Charles Creighton, and opinionated Cecil Walford. As each lady experiences the diversions of the seaside resort with adventure by land and by sea, they discover romance, intrigue, and tests of loyalty and honor that beg the unspoken question “Is it too late for love?”
