Thomas and Amelia were betrothed in childhood, and while Thomas fully intends to marry her at some point, he is dragging his feet for reasons that aren’t made apparent, but which I suspect may be due to the fact that it’s one of the few areas of his life over which he can exert some choice. The one area where he has rather neglected his duty is in relation to his fiancée, Lady Amelia Willoughby. He comes across as a bit of a stuffed shirt to begin with, but it becomes gradually apparent that while he has fully accepted his responsibilities and performs all his duties (well, almost all of them) to the absolute best of his abilities – he sometimes feels rather hemmed in by them and very occasionally wonders what it would be like to have a bit more freedom. The hero of this book is Thomas Cavendish, Duke of Wyndham, a very serious young man who has been bred to manage a dukedom and does so extremely diligently. The companion book – The Lost Duke of Wyndham – was published first, which may account for some of the lack of enthusiasm for Mr Cavendish perhaps some readers felt short-changed because of the number of scenes which appeared in both books. Mr Cavendish, I Presume is the second book of two which tell the same story from different points of view. I suspect this was primarily due to two reasons – one, that I haven’t read previous book and two, this is an audiobook narrated by the incomparable Rosalyn Landor (who can do no wrong in my ears) – and she absolutely nailed it in terms of the emotional content of the story. Having read a number of lukewarm reviews of this book, I was pleasantly surprised when it turned out to be much better than I had been given to expect. Which is the cruelest joke of all, because this arrogant and illustrious duke has made the mistake of falling in love … with his own fiancee! Rating: B+ for content and A for narration And if Thomas is not the duke, then he’s not engaged to Amelia. But just when he begins to realize that his bride might be something more than convenient, Thomas’s world is rocked by the arrival of his long-lost cousin, who may or may not be the true Duke of Wyndham. Thomas rather likes having a fiancee - all the better to keep the husband-hunters at bay - and he does intend to marry her … eventually. But as she watches him from afar, she has a sneaking suspicion that he never thinks about her at all …
And waiting … for Thomas Cavendish, the oh-so-lofty duke, to finally get around to marrying her. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember.
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