- Fiction, Historical Romance, Man-woman relationship, New York Times bestseller
By all accounts, Simon Basset is on the verge of proposing to his best friend's sister--the lovely and almost-on-the-shelf--Daphne Bridgerton. But the two of the know the truth--it's all an elaborate ruse to keep Simon free from marriage-minded society mothers. And as for Daphne, surely she will attract some worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable....
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Classical in form, warm, effortless and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Julia Quinn
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Wheeler Pub., Gao bao guo ji you xian gong si
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- English, Chinese, Polish, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9780708803318
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Julia Quinn is the pseudonym used by Julie Pottinger (born Julie Cotler), a best-selling American historical romance author, who says she chose her pseudonym so her Regency romances would be on bookshelves next to those of the successful romance writer Amanda Quick. Her novels have been translated into thirteen foreign languages, and she has appeared on the New York Times Bestseller List nine times.
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