Miss Leda Cassidy is a woman with a special set of skills, skills she has honed over a long time. These skills are not what one would normally expect of a gentile Irish lady who takes the odd job as a companion or tutor to the upper classes but, in Meihan Boey’s charming novel The Formidable Miss Cassidy, turn out to be surprisingly useful. We get to see Miss Cassidy’s skills on display in two supernatural adventures that blend European and Southeast Asian magic and myths, adventures that Miss Cassidy pulls off with an understated Victorian aplomb...

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