Other Side of Life
Point of Honour (Sarah Tolerance, volume 1)
By Madeleine E. Robins
14 Oct, 2025
History's Actors
2003’s Point of Honour is the first volume in Madeleine E. Robins’ Sarah Tolerance alternate history regency mystery series.
Regency England offers disgraced women like Sarah Tolerance a number of career alternatives. For example, a particularly romantic fallen woman might hurl herself from cliffs into a J. M. W. Turner-quality seascape. Far more likely, she would join England’s legions of prostitutes, become a manager of said prostitutes or perhaps a hat-maker. Sarah became an investigative agent.
But first, about the Regency in which Sarah is living. King George III being quite mad, Queen Regent is in charge.
What of the Prince of Wales, you ask?