The Night of the Comet

Harris and Bostock #2

Language: English

Best friends Harris and Bostock return, with Bostock now smitten with Harris's sister, Mary. As Harris attempts to orchestrate a romance between them, the entire town finds itself entangled in a series of confusing romantic entanglements. All of this unfolds under the celestial spectacle of Pigott's Comet, adding to the chaotic charm of the night.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Funny Lighthearted Romantic

Friends to Lovers

Historical Fiction Romantic Comedy

Leon Garfield

Leon Garfield was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. Garfield's novels for children all have historical settings, mainly in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The novels were greatly influenced by both Charles Dickens and Robert Louis Stevenson. Garfield wrote his first book, the pirate novel _Jack Holborn_, for adult readers, but an editor saw its potential as a children's novel and persuaded Garfiel...