![]() ![]() Violet Hughes, Lady Greycliff, is a respectable widow and has worked hard to become the perfect lady, at least outwardly. While Claudia, Carrie, and I all enjoyed reading the book, when we started to discuss it, we found structural problems and character decisions that alternately baffled or enraged us. ![]() Perhaps most of all, it’s a story about claiming the right to be happy, with or without the approval of society. It’s also a story about second chances, and reclaiming yourself after years of needing to be – or believing yourself to be – someone else. ![]() Content warning: Discussion of a trans character who isn’t treated very well by the narrative.Ī Lady’s Formula for Love is a story about love, politics, science and the frustrations and difficulties of being a woman in 1840s England. ![]()
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