New series is a welcome escape

OF all the the ‘gogglebox’ offerings this festive season, far and away the most entertaining and riveting has been Netflix’s sumptuous adaptation of Julia Quinn’s historical romance novels Bridgerton, which is set in Regency London and epitomises the epithet ‘bodice-ripper’.

I haven’t read the novels but, if the TV series is true to the original story line, I can only think that Ms Quinn is Jane Austen, Barbara Cartland and Jackie Collins rolled up in one!

We can only hope that there will be a second season of this treat – just the sort of escapism needed to remove us, if only for a while, from the reality of the global pandemic. Bob Readman Bournemouth