Must agree with all you chatters about "Katherine", it must be one of my favourite books.  Oddly enough, I had forgotten it when my daughter asked me for a list of my all time top 20 favourite reads.  (Now that is a tricky task!)
I have also discovered Elizabeth Chadwick in our local library and am enjoying her books very much.
Just wondering, did anyone else start historical fiction with Georgette Heyer?  I still love them.  My favourite was "An Infamous Army"
p.s. Is this admission akin to owning up to loving Abba???