This is an oldie but goodie. I’m rereading all the Georgette Heyer novels in my library, and I started with this one. Charming, alternately funny and sad, full of memorable characters, and it is utterly accurate historically, including the slang. Heyer’s work was required reading for anthropology students in some universities. Lucky kids!
Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."—Publishers Weekly
Beautiful, capable, and independent minded, Venetia Lanyon's life on her family's estate in the country side is somewhat restricted. But her neighbor, the infamous Lord Damerel, a charming rake shunned by polite society, is about to shake things up.
Lord Damerel has built his life on his dangerous reputation, and when he meets Venetia, he has nothing to offer and everything to regret. Though his scandalous past and deepest secrets give Venetia reason to mistrust him, a rogue always gets what he wants.
Another Heyer classic. What I appreciate about this one is that it is not a romance, though Heyer is credited as the originator of the Regency romance genre. The other thing I like about her books, especially this one, is that a man is the main character. The hero runs away from his stifling guardian and falls into and rescues himself from a series of scrapes, including being kidnapped. So charmingly written, and with a wry wit. Heyer was very funny in her unique way.
The Queen of Regency Romance, Georgette Heyer, delights readers with a charming tale of a duke who is tired of playing by the rules.
The Duke of Sale is out to prove himself
The shy, young Duke of Sale has never known his parents. Instead, his Grace Adolphus Gillespie Vernon Ware, Gilly for short, has endured twenty-four years of rigorous mollycoddling from his uncle and valet. But his natural diffidence conceals a rebellious spirit.
A mysterious beauty provides the perfect opportunity
When Gilly hears of Belinda, the beautiful foundling who appears to be blackmailing his cousin, he escapes with glee.…
Heyer immerses you in a different world in each book, and with some exceptions, never writes about the same slice of society in the same way. But she brings to life the 19th century upper class mind. In this story, a young nobleman inherits his father’s gambling debts, has to retire from his role in the Napoleonic wars, and has to marry for money to save the family from ruin. Turns out, the so-called lower orders of British society may have a lot going for them.
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER '[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS _____________
Adam Deveril returns from the Peninsula War a hero, only to find his family on the brink of ruin and his much-loved ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt.
It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who introduces him to Mr. Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth, with his…
Sonata Bianchi unexpectedly encounters Mathias Morelli, whose disappearance ten years earlier had left her family as shaken as their beloved San Francisco, which is rebuilding after a major earthquake. Both her old rage against and passion for him are reignited. But though love blossoms between them, they stir up three generations’ worth of their rival families’ hatreds, misunderstandings, and painful secrets. Can they break the chains of the past, or will they lose their way? A complex tale of generations of loves lost and loves born anew, mirrored in the renewal of a vibrant city.
