Author: Lauren Hunter

Title: The Promise

1. Marilyn: "He went off somewhere, most likely to Suffolk High Street to take care of something - only God knows what."
2. The duke: "Suffolk has such a fine High Street, Lady Elizabeth."
3. Lady Elizabeth: "Lady Marilyn, Miss Wood and I were going to take the carriage into High Street today."

Jings!

#1 implies Suffolk High Street is a town.

#2 implies Suffolk is a town with a fine High Street

#3 implies that High Street is the name of the town.

The reality is, that in the geography of England, SUFFOLK is a county (not a town) in which there are not any towns called High Street.

Author: Joan Smith

Title: The Pretenders

"He threw another stone, this one with force. It must have gone half-way to America, I thought."

The action takes place on the south coast of England, within sight of the Isle of Wight. 

No English person living on the southcoast would be unaware that if the stone had continued skipping across the water, it would have landed in France. So why did she think America?

Two Americans, Abe and Dwight, are discussing trans-Atlantic politics.

Abe says: "The British Prime-Minister Cameron got it wrong."

Dwight replies: "Unlike the American President Barack Obama."

While, it's understandable that Abe qualifies Cameron as the 'British Prime-Minister', is it really likely Dwight would say to a fellow American .... 'the American President...'?

In the Regency Period there was only one Prince Regent.

During the Regency period the upper echelons of society knew who Lord Castlereagh was and his role in Vienna.

So why, in 'Petals in the Storm' (MJP) does Rafe, a British aristocrat, say to fellow Brits: "All the Allied sovereigns are in Paris except the British Prince Regent......" and later in the same text does Lucien, also a British aristocrat, say to a fellow Brit: "simply inform Foreign Minister Castlereagh..." ?????