Friday's Child: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Friday's Child: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

by Georgette Heyer (Author)

Synopsis

Rejected by the incomparable Miss Milborne for his unsteadiness of character, wild Lord Sheringham is bent on avenging Fate and coming into his fortune. But the very first woman he should see is Hero Wantage, the young and charmingly unsophisticated chit, who has loved him since childhood ...Friday's Child is a typically sweeping historical romance by the queen of the genre, who for fifty years won the hearts of readers worldwide and has found a new devoted readership in the twenty-first century.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 384
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 03 Jun 2004

ISBN 10: 0099468042
ISBN 13: 9780099468042
Book Overview: A dashing tale of heroes, heroines and Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists.

Media Reviews
My favourite historical novelist ... I owe her many happy hours -- Margaret Drabble Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic -- Katie Fforde A writer of great wit and style ... I've read her books to ragged shreds -- Kate Fenton Daily Telegraph
Author Bio
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.