Lex Croucher's ‘Trouble’ We’ll be rounding off our series of book groups in style! Lex Croucher is a new author on the scene who has been delighting readers with fresh, modern takes on the Regency Romance genre. Fun, witty, and rather raunchy too, Trouble will be the focus of the discussion and will be the perfect launch-point for conversations around diversity and representation in historical fiction, as well as how authors are being more playful with this most joyous of genres. A bit about the book: There's a new governess at Fairmont House, and she's going to be nothing but trouble. Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she's not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her sister's - brilliant, kind Amy, who isn't perpetually angry, dangerously reckless, and who does (inexplicably) like children. But Amy is unwell and needs a doctor, their father is gone and their mother is useless, so here Emily is, pretending to be something she's not. If she can get away with her deception for long enough to earn a few months' wages and slip some expensive trinkets into her pockets along the way, perhaps they'll be all right. That is, as long as she doesn't get involved with the Edwards family's dramas. Emily refuses to care about her charges - Grace, who talks too much and loves too hard, and Aster, who is frankly terrifying but might just be the wittiest sixteen-year-old Emily has ever met - or the servants, who insist on acting as if they're each other's family. And she certainly hasn't noticed her employer, the brooding, taciturn Captain Edwards, no matter how good he might look without a shirt on . . . As Fairmont House draws her in, Emily's lies start to come undone. Can she fix her mistakes before it's too late?
29 October 2025 – No.1 Royal Crescent, Servants’ Hall 5:30pm – 6:00pm – Private viewing of our current exhibition “The Most Tiresome Place in the World”: Jane Austen & Bath 6:00pm – 7:00pm – Book group discussion Tickets are £7.00 for adults, £15.50 for an adult with book, £3.00 for under 25s and £11.50 for an under 25 ticket with book Please note: if you have ordered a copy of the book with your ticket, your details will be passed on to Mr B’s Emporium, who will contact you when your book is ready to collect from their shop. This will usually be a couple of days after you place your order.
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