Set in the Regency period, this is a classic tale of misunderstood love and an arranged marriage.
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"Patron recommended - Jane Austen-like in her look at Regency English family, marriage and love, and which is better to live without. I will try more Georgette Heyer in the future. " — Laurie (4 out of 5 stars)
"Patron recommended - Jane Austen-like in her look at Regency English family, marriage and love, and which is better to live without. I will try more Georgette Heyer in the future. "
" This is my favourite novel by Georgette Heyer. The characters are so believable. The audiobook version by Phillida is well worth listening to. "
" I had to read something fluffy, with a happy-ending, after Freedom. Georgette Heyer is always good for a laugh. "
" Well written, as always, and I enjoyed how the main character came to appreciate his homely wife's qualities and realized his previous infatuation for a beautiful girl was just that. "
" I didn't like this one as much as her other books. I found myself increasingly annoyed with Adam and his persistent "calf-love" for the woman he couldn't have and he didn't realize what a gem he had in his wife until the end. "
" The characters just weren't interesting enough for me. "
Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) is one of the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, and the creator of the Regency genre of romance fiction. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. She also wrote eleven detective stories.
Phyllida Nash has appeared in numerous sound productions, including over fifty plays for BBC Radio 4, as well as Book at Bedtime, two series of Up the Garden Path, and many classic serials. Her career spans stage, television, and radio, having played parts as diverse as Portia in Julius Caesar and Poppy Dicky in Rookery Nook. Phyllida also produced the book Unexplained Laughter as a play for BBC television, which starred Diana Rigg and Elaine Page.
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