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Published by Mills and Boon, the novel is set in the Victorian era and focuses on the life of a red-headed aristocratic woman who rails against the expectations of her family to have an arranged marriage.
Lady Margaret is based loosely on one of the Duchess’s own ancestors, her great-great-aunt Lady Margaret Montagu Douglas Scott, who was the daughter of the fifth Duke of Buccleuch.
But critics have been cool on the book, with Melanie McDonagh, writing for the Evening Standard, calling the book “amiable tosh”.
She noted the author’s own rollercoaster history “beats all the fiction that follows”.
One of the main criticisms of the 500-page book, including by The Guardian’s Alison Flood, is the lack of “sexy shenanigans”.
“Bridgerton, this is not,” Ms Flood wrote.
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