Elizabeth is quite a personality – I’m sure she didn’t expect to find herself jumping from the frying pan into the fire in terms of her treatment when she was sent to Honiton, but there is no doubt that in the end, she made the very best she could of things. I’m really glad she found happiness, and that, far from continuing to yearn for her former life in London, she grew so contented with life in Honiton that she would have hated to give it up. I also enjoyed seeing the way her relationship with her two surviving brothers developed so strongly.

None of the “minor” characters were really so very minor, were they? They all had a role in showing us what life in a small 18th century town would have been like. When I have a little more time, I plan to go back and reread both The Lacemaker’s Daughter and Passengers together – I know I will enjoy them once again.

I really enjoyed Passengers – found it a page turning read. I loved the way the various passengers’ experiences evolved both separately and in re-encounters with their fellow passengers at various times – the interweaving of the various plots and sub-plots formed a lovely warp and weft.