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Kate leads a double life.

She was born a country vicar’s cherished daughter but is now an impoverished spinster raising her orphaned nieces and nephews. To earn their keep, she works as a London lady’s companion and sends her earnings home to her cousin, Bella, who minds the children in…


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1 author picked The Difficult Life of a Regency Spinster as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Impossible not to sympathize with Kate's tangled web of responsibility for supporting orphaned nieces and nephews, need to earn money to support them, and the scandalous situation she finds herself in when she has to do so by singing in public under a pseudonym, and evade an admirer who wants to make her his mistress.

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