The Staffymum's Book Nook: Rockwood Chronicles

Published: 2nd February 2023

★★★★★ 4.5 stars (rounded up)

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Dolly’s dreams could lead her astray . . .

Dolly Blanchard dreams of a bigger life. She wants to make a mark on the world, not simply wait for a husband to come along. So when an impoverished actress offers her a lifeline, Dolly flees to London, determined to make it on the stage and prove to her family – and herself – that she can strike out alone.

But the dark city streets are full of danger. With her dreams fading to dust, Dolly soon finds herself in peril. And with the family’s future under threat at Rockwood Castle, and secrets tumbling out of the shadows, she faces a difficult choice.

Will her heart call her home?

Book Six of The Rockwood Chronicles

MY THOUGHTS:

The sixth and final installment of the Rockwood Chronicles focuses on the eldest of Rosalind Blanchard's children, Dolly. The first of the series began with Rosalind so it only seems fitting that it should end with her child. But of course, it doesn't really end there as we meet up with many of the Rockwood family in the standalone "A Thimble for Christmas" as Todd, Gus, Dolly, Rosalind and ALex all put in an appearance along with the eternal bachelor Freddie.

But in this tale we are back in Rockwood where Felicia de Marney's dream of opening and running her own theatre has come to fruition, having been built on the site of the former Greystone Park after it was razed to the ground.

After witnessing her grandmama's harsh words towards a young girl who has auditioned for her, Dolly decides that she could follow a career on the stage as well. It seems the young girl, Liza Day, had relinquished her role in London to return home to care for her ailing grandmother and take on a smaller role in Felicia's theatre. Not one to refuse a challenge, Dolly decides to go to London and take on Liza's role until she is able to continue to do so and begs Gus Baker, a young soldier who began life at Rockwood as one of Nancy's street urchins she saved from the gutter, to acconpany her to London.

Of course a young woman of barely twenty travelling to London accompanied by a gentleman who is not related to her could threaten to ruin her reputation. But Dolly has bigger dreams than that of tittle tattle. And Gus only has eyes for Dolly.

Dolly is determined to prove to herself - and her family - that she can strike out and make a name for herself on the stage. But Dolly isn't prepared for the life that awaits her away from the safety of her family shroud and soon she discovers that the streets are fraught with danger. Dolly soon finds herself in peril and can think of only one lifeline she can call upon in the big city - Freddie at Dorrington House.

But then with her dreams in tatters and her family's fortune under threat back in Devonshire, Dolly must make the decision to return home lest secrets destroy everything she knows.

A most enjoyable final read and a fitting end, as being the sixth book I feel the series has run its course, particularly with the awful Felicia de Marney who I wished would have taken a stage dive long ago. The woman is selfish and thinks only of her own ends. Claims to be Lady Carey but was born in the gutter and then left her family to pursue her own ends on the stage.

I enjoyed this final outing and though I read "A Thimble for Christmas" before this one, it was good to revisit with those chraracters post-Rockwood.

Another delightful read.

MEET THE AUTHOR:

Dilly Court grew up in North-east London and began her career in television, writing scripts for commercials. She is married with two grown-up children and four grandchildren, and now lives in Dorset on the beautiful Jurassic Coast with her husband. She is the author of eighteen novels and also writes under the name of Lily Baxter.

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Sunday, 31 December 2023

REVIEW: Snow Bride by Dilly Court

Snow Bride (The Rockwood Chronicles #5) by Dilly Court

Genre: Historical fiction, Sagas, Victorian era, Romance

Read: 31st December 2023

Published: 13th October 2022

★★★★★ 5 stars

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‘I foresee happiness for you, Nancy. I hear bells and I see snow, and your heart’s desire comes true’

A chance encounter brings Nancy Sunday to the streets of London, where she finds herself amongst a band of street urchins.

Her heart may have been broken by love but it’s big enough to help those less fortunate than herself, and Nancy takes these unloved orphans in – but when one of them is accused of a serious crime, the neighbourhood turns against her.

The colder the cruel grip of winter grows, the more mouths she finds herself having to feed. Can Nancy’s good heart and strength bring them all through?

*And don’t miss the sixth and final book in The Rockwood Chronicles – Dolly’s Dream – available to pre-order now!*

Book Five of The Rockwood Chronicles

MY THOUGHTS:

This fifth outing in Rockwood sees us travel to Gibraltar for a short time with none of them seeming to remain in one place. Only the first book remained in Devonshire (and maybe Cornwall as well) but the second and third took in France, the fourth was Barbados and this one Gibraltar! They sure do get around. But having said that, this one does have a touch of Lindsey Hutchinson to it which will enthrall those fans, I'm sure.

Once again, Nancy Greystone (formerly Sunday) takes centre stage and shines brilliantly. The story picks up quite literally where the last one left off...and I do mean "literally". Nancy is still at Dorrington Park with Freddie having just proposed and she having just faced off with Lady Dorrington. Next hurdle, Lord Dorrington. And he has some reservations to the nuptials but, after some convincing, agrees but with one stipulation that is non-negotiable. Nancy must take up residence in her ancestral home of Greystone Park and run it as its mistress successfully for one whole year. After which he will grant the couple his blessing.

Nancy is speechless. Although she is the legal owner of Greystone Park she had no intention of living there but if she wishes to marry Freddie then she must agree to Lord Dorrington's condition. She feels sure that Bertie, her legal guardian, will give them his blessing but they are both shocked to discover that he agreed with Lord Dorrington, as strange a request as it was. Nancy is angered that Freddie didn't stand up to either Bertie or his father and is convinced he mustn't really love her if he isn't prepared to fight for her.

So Nancy takes up residence at Greystone Park, much to the annoyance of her cousin Christina Cottingham who believes the estate to be her birthright despite being mistress of Cottingham Manor now. She isn't used to being mistress and is grateful for the help of her faithful servants who assist her in both etiquette and expectations. It isn't long before she gains their loyalty and trust and soon Greystone Park begins to shine again.

Then Aurelia Blanchard arrives unannounced from Cornwall and convinces Nancy to a trip to London but abandons her to make her own way to the station. Unfortunately, Nancy is kidnapped by a gang of street urchins who believe her to be a lady of means and therefore a way ti feed themselves. What they don't realise is that Nancy has no money on her which is why she was walking through the unknown streets of London alone. But instead of reporting them to the police, she takes them in, clothes them,, feeds them and pays for their passage back to Devonshire with her where she will become their guardian and hopefully give them the start in life she was lucky enough to be given by Rosalind Blanchard when she was a child. Of course, everyone thinks she has lost her mind and queries what she must be thinking taking in street urchins who will surely pilfer the silver when she isn't looking.

In all of this, Freddie is conspicuously absent. But then Lord Dorrington did request that they not see each other for the entire year Nancy made a success of becoming mistress of Greystone Park. However, the one time she did call on him for help, she was livid that he seemed to care more for business affairs than her! This annoyed me. Throughout all last book and the beginning of this one, Nancy stipulated that she would not marry Freddie unless both his parents gave their blessing as she did not want to come between his family. She also understood that he was heir to a vast estate and viscountcy and that he had responsibilities that would become his in the place of his father when the time came. Well, now he was stepping up to those responsibilities as his father took ill and she's complaining about it! Not only that, she complains he doesn't seem to have time for her anymore and cares more for the business and the estate than for her. If he really wanted to, he could make the time to see her. She's the one who told him to return to Dorrington Park! She's the one who told him to take up his place as heir to the estate and wait the year out for his father to give his blessing. And now she complains?

But that was my only complaint in all fairness. Well, except for how things ended up. It wasn't what I thought or was expecting or anything. The nuptials was just too weird in my opinion. But that aside, it was still one of the best books in the series with that touch of Lindsey Hutchinson when Nancy took a dozen street urchins under her wing and took them back to Greystone Park.

And so with one more book in this series left "Dolly's Dream" I look forward to reading Dolly's story as she grows into a woman from the child we've seen of her thus far.

Another delightful read.

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Friday, 29 December 2023

REVIEW: Sunday's Child by Dilly Court

Sunday's Child (The Rockwood Chronicles #4) by Dilly Court

Genre: Historical fiction, Sagas, Victorian era, Romance

Read: 29th December 2023

Published: 23rd June 2022

★★★★★ 5 stars

DESCRIPTION:

Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship – until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. Now eighteen years old, Nancy is an adopted member of the Carey family. But she can’t help wondering who her parents really were…

When Nancy is sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in the midst of London society. There she meets Freddie Ashton – kind and warm-hearted, he might just be the man of Nancy’s dreams. But she knows his wealthy parents would never let him marry a penniless foundling.

And she has also caught the eye of another man – the charming and dangerous Gervase North, who has reasons of his own for discovering Nancy’s parentage.

Will Nancy ever find where she truly belongs?

Book Four of The Rockwood Chronicles

MY THOUGHTS:

The fourth installment of this exciting series set in the windswept rolling Devonshire hills, SUNDAY'S CHILD is where foundling Nancy Sunday shines. Admittedly, at the beginning of this tale I found myself rolling my eyes at having to endure Felicia de Marney once again as this time she took on a more prominent role in the first third of the book. And I was hoping that Nancy would escape her clutches and stand up to the woman who is nothing short of a self-obsessed bully when the mood takes her.

Nancy Sunday came into the series in the second book as a young child Rosalind Blanchard saved from a life of servitude at the cruel hands of the vicar's wife Tabitha Shaw. Rosie took pity on the poor little waif and took her under her wing, educated her and discovered that she was not as stupid as Mrs Shaw had proclaimed her to be. But rather she was very bright and eager to learn.

However, Nancy never quite knew where she fit in at Rockwood. Rosie insisted that she be treated as a member of the family while Hester frowned upon such airs and graces and believed she should be trained as and live with the servants. So it's not surprising in the opening chapter of this book that Rosie and Hester are arguing as to to value of Nancy being sent away to deportment school to become a lady. Rosie has always insisted she was a valued member of their family while Hester believed that it was above Nancy's station in life and as a foundling, she should live a life of servitude and be treated as such.

Rosie, of course, won out in the end as she usually does and Nancy was sent to London to the Academy where she was to become a lady. She was there four months before the school treated the ladies to a night at the opera at which Felicia de Marney was the star. Having reunited with young Nancy after her performance, Felicia decided that she would be a perfect candidate for her accompanist to play pianoforte to her singing and attending to whatever else she desires. She was not paid a wage but rather Felicia gave her food and lodgings and paid for a new wardrobe that was fitting for a woman in her company. And yet, Nancy was still considered a servant.

It was while she had been at the Academy that Nancy met Freddie Ashton, heir the Donnington title and estate in Somerset. He was the only child of Lord and Lady Donnington who had already matched him with an heiress that he had no intention of marrying and did not approve of the friendship forming between their son and a foundling, as it was now widely known. Felicia also did not approve of their friendship and discouraged her at every turn. It wasn't until they were staying at Donnington Park that Nancy had had enough of Felicia's treatment of her and stood her ground, packing her trunks and leaving Donnington for Rockwood, but not before Lady Donnington had her say and ordering her to leave at once.

Nancy finds herself once again at Rockwood somewhat rudderless and feeling as if she doesn't quite belong. She longs to know where she came from, about her mother and father, who they were and why she was left on the steps of the orphanage almost nineteen years before. But it's a chance meeting with one Gervase North who believes himself to be the rightful heir the Greystone title and estate that sets her on a path to discover the truth about her heritage. And nothing could prepare her, or anyone else, for what she would uncover.

With the exception of the horrid Felicia de Marney (I wish she would fall under a carriage), I thoroughly enjoyed this latest installment which was an improvement on the last one in which Patricia who, though she has now settled, is a little too much like her mother for my liking and I have never really warmed to her. I've always held a soft spot for Nancy and I was delighted that she had the opportunity to tell her story and to rightfully shine.

I can't wait to see what else Dilly has in store in the final two books "Snow Bride" (next) and "Dolly's Dream" (the final book).

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Thursday, 28 December 2023

REVIEW: Runaway Widow by Dilly Court

Runaway Widow (The Rockwood Chronicles #3) by Dilly Court

Genre: Historical fiction, Sagas, Victorian era, Romance

Read: 28th December 2023

Published: 17th February 2022

★★★★ 4 stars

DESCRIPTION:

After the sudden death of her husband, Patricia Greystone is left with nothing, and at twenty-four, she finds herself a penniless widow. As the youngest child of a large family, she has always been headstrong and proud – so she’s determined not to return to her family cap in hand. Instead she strikes out on her own.

The dark streets of London are the perfect place to hide from the world, and Patricia makes her living singing on the streets. But the city is a dangerous place.

Without her family around her, will Patricia lose her way?

Book Three of The Rockwood Chronicles

MY THOUGHTS:

Dilly Court reunites us once again with the Careys and Blanchards of Rockwood Castle on the windswept Devonshire moors. However, this time the focus is on the youngest Carey child, who married towards the end of the previous book to a man old enough to be her father.

Patricia Carey is now Lady Greystone and married to one of the most prominent members of society. After marrying her childhood friends' father Sir Michael Greystone after setting her cap at him to secure her wealth and position, Patricia and Sir Michael relocated to London to be closer to the House of Commons in his position as a member of parliament. Their London house is as salubrious and illustrious as Patricia could want. Sir Michael gives her a generous dress allowance at her disposal and their lives are made up of a continual round of parties, soirees and dinners for which Patricia was born.

On the eve of yet another party which had to be cancelled due to the thick peasouper fog, Sir Michael returns home with the news that he has to go abroad for secret diplomatic business to which she is not privy. Patricia is at something of a loss and decides to resurrect her career on the stage. However, first she must undertake singing lessons with one Signora Valentina Galfondi to bring her up to speed for the role ahead of her. She takes herself back to Greystone Park where she endeavours to strengthen her voice under Valentina's guiding hand.

And then a messenger arrives with an official document. Sir Michael has been involved in a fatal train accident in France. But Patricia refuses to believe it, as does Sir Michael's youngest daughter still in residence, Sylvia. Upon her return to London, Patricia discovers that not all is as it seems. Sir Michael had neglected to update his will therefore leaving everything - Greystone Park and his debts - to his daughters Christina and Sylvia. Patricia is left with nothing. Barely even the clothes on her back.

And so she returns to Rockwood with her tail between her legs. But not for long. She hatches a ridiculous plan in which young Nancy decides to play a part and the pair hightail it back to London for the bright lights, fame and fortune. Unfortunately, brains were never part of Patricia's attributes and so her decision making was dubious to say the least. The speed with which she changed her mind was dizzying, each time declaring she means what she says. Only for her to change her mind just as swiftly again.

Her choices were stupidly naive and ridiculous, seeing her off to France and Italy in search of her mother in the hope that she will share her insights and wisdom. Seriously? Has she learnt nothing in the past two decades? Felicia de Mauney, nee Carey, thinks of no one but herself. And Patricia is so very like her fickle mother and just as flighty. So I was not surprised that she came unstuck on foreign shores...for she has no one to blame but herself. But her bad choices didn't end there. She returned to Greystone Park with the promise of contesting the will and taking up her rightful place as Lady Greystone...yet what became of that? She scarpered at the first threat and nothing came of it. So why introduce that plotline if it was not going to be followed through. All it did was confirm that Patricia was a fickle flighty piece who cannot make up her mind. Her to-ing and fro-ing was enough to make one's head spin and I was dizzy trying to keep up with her constant changes of mind.

I love Dilly's books and I love this series but I do not like Patricia. I didn't like her last book and I didn't much warm to her in this one. In fact, it only served to remind me how entitled she really believed she was. And her back and forth mind changes made me dizzy. I wasn't fond of the France side of the story and preferred it firmly back in Rockwood.

While I love this series and am thoroughly enjoying it, I didn't enjoy this one quite so much and wish I could give it 5 stars but Patricia Greystone isn't worth that rating. Besides which, the story wasn't as enjoyable as other tales by the author and those in this series. But I do look forward to the next one "Sunday's Child" when Nancy takes centre stage...

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Wednesday, 27 December 2023

REVIEW: Winter Wedding by Dilly Court

Winter Wedding (The Rockwood Chronicles #2) by Dilly Court

Genre: Historical fiction, Sagas, VIctorian era, Romance

Read: 26th December 2023

Published: 14th October 2023

★★★★★ 5 stars

DESCRIPTION:

As the first Christmas snowflakes fall, Rosalind finds herself pregnant and alone…

Christmas is coming to the village of Rockwood. But the happiest time of the year is marred by the news that Rosalind Blanchard’s husband, Piers, is close to death after a shipwreck at sea. The fate of her beloved family home, the crumbling Rockwood Castle, is once more in her hands. She must find the strength to keep her family together.

Pregnant, Rosalind comes face to face with the only man who ever made her heart truly sing: her husband’s brother, Alex. As the Christmas bells ring, news of Piers arrives that changes everything. And another chance of happiness might be the gift Rosalind has been waiting for…

Book Two of The Rockwood Chronicles

MY THOUGHTS:

We rejoin the Careys and the Blanchards at Rockwood once again in the second book of the series WINTER WEDDING. As usual, Dilly delights us with the tales of scandal, love and woe in equal mesaure with her trademark rags to riches interwoven into the story.

Rosalind Blanchard remains living at Rockwood Castle, the unofficial custodian of the estate in the absence of her older brother Bertie who inherited their grandfather's baronetcy on his death some months before. Rosie married Piers who continues to divide his time between Trevenor in Cornwall and Rockwood in Devon, as well as overseeing affairs of the china clay mine he inherited from his father. For the past several months Rosie has longed for her husband's return and yet when he is home, he isn't quite present.

Christmas is approaching and with it the upcoming nuptials of Rosie's younger sister Patricia to Piers younger brother Alex, who once held a torch for Rosie. Their wedding is to be Christmas Eve and everyone who is anyone in the county and beyond are to attend. But then a telegram arrives informing her that Alex has been injured in a shipwreck and remains in a hospital in France until he is able to travel. Patricia is beside herself that he could do this to her and humiliate her in such a way. And then their mother comes back with a solution to their problem...unfortunately, only Felicia can see it as such whilst everyone else finds her idea tactless and insensitive. But then Felicia Carey could only ever think of herself.

Rosie decides to leave for France immediately and arranges a passage across the channel with Hester by her side. They arrive to discover that Piers was also injured in an adjoining wreck and is currently unconscious in hospital. Rosie and Hester rent premises close to the hospital so that she may visit Alex and Piers every day. When Alex is able to leave the hospital, Rosie continues to visit Piers daily until his condition improves. She will not leave France until both men are able to travel back with them.

Of course, a return would only mean histrionics as far as Patricia is concerned, who appears to be a younger version of her mother - self-centred and self-obsessed to the core. She gives no thought as to what Alex has endured, only that he apparently jilted her and left her humiliated when it should have been the happiest day of her life. I personally think he escaped something of a sentence. But what of Piers?

While I quite liked Patsy in the first book, I loathed her in this one. She was petulant, selfish and completely spoilt. She thought of no one but herself, much like her mother, dare she outshine Felicia! Thankfully they did not take precedence and featured very little. Rosie is the focus as is her relationships with Piers, Alex and the two children she took under her wing - Nancy and Tommy.

As always, Dilly delights her fans with her distinctive style of rags to riches, romance, woe and a little bit of scandal. A definite read for fans of "Downton Abbey" and delightful Victorian sagas. I can't wait to continue the series with "Runaway Widow" to see what she has in store for us next...

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Tuesday, 19 December 2023

REVIEW: Fortune's Daughter by Dilly Court

Fortune's Daughter (The Rockwood Chronicles #1) by Dilly Court

Genre: Historical fiction, Sagas, Victorian, Rockwood Chronicles

Read: 19th December 2023

Published: 10th June 2021

★★★★★ 5 stars

DESCRIPTION:

Rockwood was home and she would do anything she could to stop it being stolen from them.

Abandoned by their parents and left to fight for themselves, headstrong Rosalind Carey has no choice but to take charge of her younger brothers and sister in Devonshire’s grand Rockwood Castle. But their once much-loved home is crumbling like the family that lives within it. Living hand to mouth and desperate to provide for the estate that depends on them, the Carey family are one debt away from ruin. Until the day comes when the dashing Piers Blanchard appears on their doorstep from Cornwall, claiming he is Rosalind’s distant cousin and that Rockwood Castle is his.

Piers says he wants to help pay off the family’s debts. But how can Rosalind be sure he isn’t out to take what is his and leave them all homeless? Only a closely-guarded secret will convince Rosalind she can trust Piers to protect her family – and her fragile heart.

Book One of The Rockwood Chronicles

MY THOUGHTS:

The first in a series of six, this book opens with 8 year old Rosalind Carey traipsing down to the beach to watch the smugglers bring their loot ashore. But the preventative men are quick to capture some of the smugglers whilst Rosie finds herself injured and in the debt of an unknown boy who rescued her and took her back home to Rockwood Castle. There she gave him a bed for the night but was gone before she arose the following morning. Rosie never knew his name and she never saw him again.

Twelve years later, Rosalind Carey has been the lady of the house for most of her siblings' lives whilst their father travelled in search of rare plants and their mother sought fame on the stage. But she never forgot the night she saw smugglers in the cove below Rockwood Castle and the boy who saved her life. He has haunted her memories and her dreams since.

But life has been hard for the Careys as they struggle to keep the roof over their heads and have racked up debts which they cannot pay. Rosalind pawns her grandmama's gold locket to pay for a third class train fare to London along with her younger sister 16 year old Patricia. It is her hope that their mother will take pity on them and grant them enough money to survive until their father returns from his travels. But Felicia Carey is a selfish woman, believing her voice is her God-given gift that she must share with the world and her home is no longer Rockwood but the stage. She has no money to give her children and tells them so.

Whilst in London, Rosalind is introduced to Piers Blanchard who informs them that he has a claim to Rockwood going back centuries in which Rockwood was the rightful home to the Blanchards. Rosalind doesn't know what to think but she believes that there is far more to Piers than meets the eye. And she isn't sure that she trusts him. But he says he can prove his claim and yet it is not his intention to evict them from the only home they have known. Instead, he goes some way to make restitution for their outstanding debts and give Rosalind a monthly allowance to keep Rockwood and her siblings. And yet she still doesn't trust him. Surely he has some ulterior motive to his generosity.

When Rosalind and Patricia travel to Cornwall to Piers' own sprawling estate in which his younger sister and his grandmother live, she is shocked to discover that someone has laid claim to the estate and the clay mine which Piers runs lest a scandalous secret about the family be revealed. Piers has no choice but to ascquiese leaving Rosalind offering them a place at Rockwood until the mess is sorted out. But living with Piers' grandmother, who brings with her all her maids and servants that she couldn't possibly live without thus creating havoc below the stairs with the Carey's lifelong loyal housekeeper and cook, Hester.

Wow! Well, life certainly isn't dull at Rockwood as the Careys and the Blanchards rub along reluctantly with Piers' grandmother constantly reminding the Careys that they are there only at the generous behest of Piers insinuating that he can take away his consent at any time. With mysteries and scandalous secrets dating back to smugglers, FORTUNE'S DAUGHTER is a delightful tale that swept me away to the Devonshire coast that I can't wait to step into the next installment to see where life takes them and all at Rockwood Castle.

I thoroughly enjoyed this sweeping tale which I think is probably Dilly's best yet. Now...onto the second book...

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