Shades of Milk and Honey is an intimate portrait of Jane Ellsworth, a
woman ahead of her time in a world where the manipulation of glamour is
considered an essential skill for a lady of quality. But despite the
prevalence of magic in everyday life, other aspects of Dorchester's
society are not that different: Jane and her sister Melody's lives still
revolve around vying for the attentions of eligible men.
Jane resists this fate, and rightly so: while her skill with glamour is
remarkable, it is her sister who is fair of face, and therefore wins the
lion's share of the attention. At the ripe old age of twenty-eight, Jane
has resigned herself to being invisible forever. But when her family's
honor is threatened, she finds that she must push her skills to the
limit in order to set things right--and, in the process, accidentally
wanders into a love story of her own.
This debut novel from an award-winning talent scratches a literary itch
you never knew you had. Like wandering onto a secret picnic attended by
Pride and Prejudice and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, Shades of Milk
and Honey is precisely the sort of tale we would expect from Jane
Austen...if only she had been a fantasy writer.