A Civil Contract
Book description
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
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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.
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