Quality writing evoking the context through a modern eye. Set in Bath, London and Sarawak the scenes with Rajah William Savage in Sarawack are the least convincing, but moderately entertaining.

Janes Aunt Emmeline and lover Julietta seem ahead of their time but are probably not - just not what we expect from Victorians. Jane as the strong independent minded Victorian lady reminds one of the story of Emily Hoibhouse a few years later.  Her suitor, the younger doctor Valentine Ross is simply despicable in every way. Clorinda the tea shop propietor is plausible, as is Jane's dad, the older doctor in the partnership.

A good interveaving of their separate tales