As they travel through Maghull, en-route to Liverpool, they get a reminder of their time on the rails, at the Frank Hornby Heritage Centre, and they tick another Wetherspoons pub off their list.

Was there not a Darcy, a Knightley, or (more likely) an Edmund Bertram or Captain Wentworth lurking in her own past? Gill Hornby has taken these questions and turned them, delightfully and ingeniously ...