- Fiction, Romance, Historical, Regency, Mate selection, fiction, Great Britain, England
In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. When her childhood friend, the golden-haired Cleone Charteris returns from finishing school, her exquisite charms have made her the belle of the English countryside.
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Classical in form, warm, nostalgic and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- First published
- 1923
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Chivers Audio Books, E-Artnow, Bantam
- Editions
- 58
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781420974010
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Georgette Heyer was born on 16 August 1902 in Wimbledon, London, England, UK. She was the eldest child of Sylvia Watkins and George Heyer; her brother George Boris was born four years later, and her brother Frank nine years later. During her childhood, the family lived also in Paris, France, but they returned to England before World War I. During the war, her father served as a requisitions officer for the British Army in France. Her father encouraged her to read, he never forbade her any book. At 17, she began a serial story to amuse her brother Boris, who suffered from a form of haemophilia and was often weak. Her father enjoyed listening to her story and asked her to prepare it for public
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