S04.30: Her Night With the Duke by Diana Quincy

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Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

This week, we’re talking about one of Sarah’s favorite recent historicals, Diana Quincy’s beautiful Her Night With the Duke, which was on our 2020 Best Romance of the Year list. This one fires on many cylinders, and the conversation it inspired covers a lot of ground. We talk about how you won’t get a better Bridgerton read-alike than this one, about the third-act breakup, why it works and the work it does in a romance, about why widows are allowed to be sexy, about responsibility and aristocracy, about hot golf, and about how modern historicals are really doing the business.

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0:00.0	Look when we say historical romance is the closest thing to is closer to fantasy
0:06.2	than it is to anything else I think yeah we're not lying I just love it I
0:11.8	love it so much I love I really love it. I love it so much. I love I really love it so much. I mean obviously I love it right because it's also my job but like
0:18.0	man a great historical just hits the spots. I think it's because the fantasy is different right?
0:24.1	Like straight up in a historical romance you are gonna like aningo
0:29.8	Mantoya like you know like cut somebody's face and then it'd be gonna be fine they're not gonna be able to do anything about it.
0:37.1	They're just gonna have to like swing off with their tail between their legs. Not all no for any
0:42.3	just I have to eat that.
0:44.0	Okay, good. I like that.
0:45.0	You know what, come back and let me give you another one on the other side.
0:48.0	That's what I want.
0:50.0	Well, welcome everyone to Fayette of Mates. I'm Sarah McClain, I read romance novels, and I write them.
0:57.0	And I'm Jennifer Pro Cup, a romance reader and critic.
1:00.0	And this week we are talking about her Night with the Duke by Diana Quincy.
1:04.8	It's sublime.
1:06.8	Diana is a truly superb historical writer.
1:11.6	I mean I'm sure she's superb but the other stuff she writes
1:13.8	too she also writes mysteries but this book is sublime. It's so I told you I mean I put it so
1:20.7	this is familiar to some of you because I put it on our best of the year list for
1:24.6	2020 because I loved it so much and so those of you who ordered the Fated
1:30.2	May's book box from Old Town Books or who have spent any time like reading the best of the yearbooks from from by gone eras.
1:42.0	Have known that I have a deep abiding love for Diana Quincy and this particular book.
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