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When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophia with his sister, Elizabeth Rivenhall, in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy invites herself into the circle of her relatives.
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Classical in form, warm, comic and nostalgic.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Georgette Heyer
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Dtv, Pan, Putnam Pub Group
- Editions
- 48
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780848808143
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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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