Georgette also made the most of her shrewd innkeeper, Nye, and a pair of Bow Street Runners whose determination to catch a murderer lead to some of the funniest scenes in the book. The novel has a memorable cast of characters including the redoubtable Miss Sarah Thane and her gourmand brother Sir Hugh Thane, the unshakeable Sir Tristram Shield, drama-loving Eustacie de Vauban, reckless young Ludovic Lavenham, and the silken-tongued Basil Lavenham.
The Talisman Ring is one of her ironic comedies and she obviously enjoyed writing it. She based the fictional inn on the real Red Lion Inn at Handcross on the London to Brighton road, just a few miles to the east of her old home at Southover. Georgette set the novel in 1793 in the familiar countryside around Horsham, and much of the story takes place in a country inn – the Red Lion Inn at Hand Cross. The Red Lion Inn at Handcross The Talisman Ring set at the Red Lion Inn at Handcross
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