GEORGETTE HEYER'S REMARKABLE FIRST NOVEL'If Bridgerton whetted your appetite for Regency fiction, don't miss an eye-catching hardback reissue of The Black Moth' Sunday Express'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella______________________________Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men.Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since. Returning to England, Jack pretends to be a gentleman named Sir Anthony Ferndale but makes his living in a most ungentlemanly fashion, as a highwayman and a gambler. When Jack encounters his nemesis, the Duke of Andover, in the midst of kidnapping Diana Beauleigh, the two old enemies come to blows. Can Jack save the beautiful Diana from rakes, kidnap and ruin...?______________________________'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times'Fabulously witty' Stephen Fry
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. Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA______________________________Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men.Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since.
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My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours—Margaret DrabbleWonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to—Katie FfordeA writer of great wit and style ... I've read her books to ragged shreds—Kate Fenton, Daily TelegraphSparkling—Independent
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781785152399
Publisert
2021-08-26
Utgiver
Vendor
William Heinemann Ltd
Vekt
440 gr
Høyde
222 mm
Bredde
144 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
336

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Biographical note

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.