{"id":687898,"date":"2025-03-31T00:23:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/?p=687898"},"modified":"2025-03-31T12:36:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:36:19","slug":"book-the-lady-and-the-piano-kindle-edition-by-helena-davis-a-historical-romance-in-the-jane-austen-tradition-set-in-pastoral-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/book-the-lady-and-the-piano-kindle-edition-by-helena-davis-a-historical-romance-in-the-jane-austen-tradition-set-in-pastoral-england\/","title":{"rendered":"BOOK: The Lady and the Piano Kindle Edition by Helena Davis&#8230; A historical romance in the Jane Austen tradition, set in pastoral England."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Lady and the Piano Kindle Edition by Helena Davis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A historical romance in the Jane Austen tradition, set in pastoral England.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The young, lovely, chestnut-haired Perdita Ellison has fallen on hard times and is forced to work for a living \u2013 a most indecorous situation for a lady of quality. <strong>She<\/strong> finds solace, however, in her piano playing. Highly independent, Perdita is a sworn spinster by choice. She rents a cottage on Cedarwood Estate, whose stately manor house is presently inhabited by the flamboyant, aristocratic Mrs Phillips and her husband. Perdita is indebted to the well-meaning George Fairhurst, her lovelorn suitor, who has helped her and her brother in their time of financial struggle, and later reluctantly promises to marry him in a moment of pressured obligation.<\/p>\n<p>Further complications arise when the long-absent landlord of Cedarwood Estate, Roland Argyle, returns unexpectedly. Highly born though he may be, Argyle has a dubious past that soon sends scandal-mongers\u2019 tongues wagging. Perdita finds herself reluctantly drawn to the formidable landlord. Ultimately, disaster strikes, banishing him from everything he loves, to face a horrifying fate. Will Perdita remain a willing spinster after all\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Buy the book Here &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.willowtradingsa.co.za\/shop\/authors\/helena-davis\">https:\/\/www.willowtradingsa.co.za\/shop\/authors\/helena-davis<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a style=\"color: #3366ff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.helenadavisauthor.com\/\">https:\/\/www.helenadavisauthor.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-687899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/Screenshot-2025-03-31-122321.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"569\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lady and the Piano Kindle Edition by Helena Davis A historical romance in the Jane Austen tradition, set in pastoral England. The young, lovely, chestnut-haired Perdita Ellison has fallen on hard times and is forced to work for a living \u2013 a most indecorous situation for a lady of quality. She finds solace, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":687899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intouchrugby.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}