She is a kind and devoted (if long suffering) sister with just enough humour and wit to make her interesting.
With each new issue, young ladies like protagonist Abigail Weston, along with her younger sister Penelope, find increasingly more ingenious ways to purchase and read about Lady Constance’s latest exploits – without their parents’ knowledge, of course.Ībigail is a delightful heroine, who made her first appearance as Joan Bennet’s friend in Love and Other Scandals. The eager young misses of the ton are, by turn, scandalised, entertained and educated by the erotic encounters between the mysterious Lady Constance and young aristocratic men. Caroline Linden utilises it to great effect in It takes a Scandal, her newest book and the second title in the ’50 ways to sin’ series, named after the pamphlet of the same name.
The introduction of a risqué novel or pamphlet to link books in series is a well-used literary device and one that’s been employed to varying degrees of success. Caroline Linden’s It Takes a Scandal – exploring 50 ways to sin
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