

I had no plans to use it again, but when I needed Harry to give Olivia an unusual gift, it just popped into my mind. Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron first appeared in It’s in His Kiss as one of the books Hyacinth was reading to Lady Danbury.In the interest of consistency, I ended up going with the translations as done by my copyeditor, whom I’m told has a Masters in Russian literature. I worked with five different Russian speakers to help me translate the text, and they never agreed on the best way to do it. Because Russian uses the Cyrillic alphabet, it needs to be both translated and transliterated.


I’m not so sure I would have made my prince Russian if I’d realized how difficult the language is to translate.I had originally intended them to, but they didn’t end up fitting in the plot. Although What Happens in London is a companion book to The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever, TSDOMMC’s hero and heroine don’t make an appearance.
