things I love about Beyond the Western Sea

Maura's dislike of Grout
Maura's insistence on getting her bundle. Mrs Sonderbye has no right to her things!
Maura slapping Toggs
Every word out of Maura's mouth
Kirkles! Complex family dynamics for the win.
Laurence and Lord Kirkle's parallel refusals to tell the truth. Oh, you don't even know how much you're his son, do you boy?
Every time Lord Kirkle says "my boy"
How completely delusional Sergeant Rumpkin is
Mr Knox the sarcastic officer
Fred calling Maura a lady
"What do you mean by races?" BE MORE NAIVE, LAURENCE. Oh wait, that's impossible.
Laurence's habit of crying shamelessly
That Patrick thinks his sister is awesome
That the brother-sister relationship is equally important and awesome as the bromance
Grout teasing Clemspool
Lucy Pickler. Yeah, she has eight lines and she's a faithful wife archetype, but she's cute.
The phrase "comely lass." I will never stop finding that funny.
Laurence shakes his head when Fred asks, "Do you trust me?"
Fred's crowning moment of awesome at the end.
That the Kirkles call each other by their first name, unlike every other married couple in this book. Yeah, I ship them.