![]() Bram doesn’t care he has a job to do and if that means injecting a little testosterone into Spindle Cove, so much the better. But Susanna is devoted to her retreat, and she isn’t sure it will survive Bram’s interference. They’re both likable, competent, virtuous, utterly commendable people. Bram and Susanna start off at loggerheads. Almost every single turn of the plot here is more joke than story. Cue the inevitable cross-dressing escapades and pratfalls. Our heroine, Susanna, protests Bram’s military incursions with a host of uppity spinsters. Our hero, Bram, is given the task of whipping Spindle Cove’s small handful of civilian men into a reserve militia. The sheep-bombing leads to a host of similarly absurd events. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a book, after all, that starts off with the hero and his boon companions setting off a small explosion to clear a herd of sheep away from a small country road – a sheep-bombing, as the incident is later titled. When I say silly, I don’t just mean that I, personally, find it silly – I mean it’s self-consciously ridiculous. A NIGHT TO SURRENDER combines gorgeous, gorgeous writing with a very silly plot. ![]()
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