The Convenient Marriage

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2005
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When the eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. For Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the excellent, but impoverished Mr Edward Heron. Disaster can only be averted by the delightful impetuosity of her youngest sister, Horatia, who conceives her own, distinctly original plans ...Fo over fifty years until her death in 1974, Georgette Heyer was the undisputed queen of historical romantic fiction, and the The Convenient Marriage shows why she configures to be loved by a huge readership to this day.

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When the eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. For Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the excellent, but impoverished Mr Edward Heron. Disaster can only be averted by the delightful impetuosity of her youngest sister, Horatia, who conceives her own, distinctly original plans ...Fo over fifty years until her death in 1974, Georgette Heyer was the undisputed queen of historical romantic fiction, and the The Convenient Marriage shows why she configures to be loved by a huge readership to this day.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 06 Jan 2005
ISBN 10: 0099474425
ISBN 13: 9780099474425
Book Overview: A wonderful novel of Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists.

Media Reviews

Wonderful characters and rapturously romantic * Katie Fforde *
It is utterly delightful, all of it, and I am going to be sharing Heyer novels from now on with anyone I know who is in need of a pick-me up. * Guardian Book Blog *
My favourite novelist . . . If you haven't read Georgette Heyer before, I envy you. What a treat you have in store! * Harriet Evans *
Triumphantly good . . . Georgette Heyer is unbeatable * India Knight *
Heyer's characterisation and dialogue are an abiding delight to me. * Dorothy L. Sayers *

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 fifteen 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.