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The Reluctant Widow

I started The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer yesterday afternoon, and finished it today at lunch.

A well-born but now penniless woman travels to the country to take on a governess position, but mistakenly gets into the wrong carriage once she arrives.  This misunderstanding blossoms into a series of adventures, with family hatred, dying husbands, espionage, protective dogs, high-spirited young cousins, and more.

My copy of the ePub was not in great shape, so after I finished it I spent an hour in Sigil cleaning it up: fixing bad paragraph transitions, splitting up paragraphs that had quoted sections from more than one person, adding a table of contents, removing some poorly scanned characters — I think it's likely that Ms. Heyer did not use too many backslashes in her writing — and cleaning up the style sheet. It looks a lot better now.

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