Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for her oldest sister's hand-a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break her heart-it is Horatia who takes matters into her own impetuous hands. Can she save her family's fortune? Or is she courting disaster?

Witty, charming, elegant, and always delightful, Georgette Heyer-the undisputed queen of Regency romance-brings the whole period to life with deft precision and glorious characters.

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Publisher : Naxos; Abridged edition (26 February 2019)
Language : English
ISBN-10 : 1982658762
ISBN-13 : 978-1982658762
Dimensions : 17.15 x 3.18 x 15.88 cm

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Sparkles with wit.

-- "Nora Roberts, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Snowdrift and Other Stories"

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Georgette Heyer (1902-1974) is one of the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, the creator of the Regency genre of romance fiction. 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. She also wrote eleven detective stories.

Richard Armitage trained at LAMDA. He is best known for his appearances in the television series Spooks, The Vicar of Dibley, Robin Hood and North and South. His theatre credits include The Duchess of Malfi and Macbeth for the Royal Shakespeare Company. He has also featured on BBC Radio 4's The Ted Hughes Letters. He has read Sylvester and Venetia for Naxos AudioBooks.

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Reviewed in Australia on 2 March 2019

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Did not realise it was an abridged version, as I know the books almost word for word, found this very annoying as crucial bits were missing. Bought the unabridged elsewhere.

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The Convenient Marriage narrated by Richard Armitage

Reviewed in Australia on 13 February 2018

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Enthralling. Superb language and so beautifully narrated.

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Great reading

Reviewed in Australia on 16 October 2020

It was a great shame the book was abridged. Richard Armitage did a fabulous reading and was brilliant as the stammering heroine. He made her adorable. I just wished it was longer but will listen to it again.

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Martin Grundy

Great fun - the literary equivalent of a Rom Com film

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 March 2017

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This was my first Georgette Heyer novel and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The action takes place during the era of horse-drawn carriages and highwaymen. The main protagonists are the aristocracy of the time, and much is made, in an incidental way, of the contemporary style of dress and the prodigious powdered hair-do's!

The story concerns love and marriage, trust and friendship, gossip and dastardly deeds, insult and revenge, misunderstandings and mishaps. It is all great fun and many of the characters put me in mind of the television series Blackadder, but with more serious bits thrown in.

Heyer is good at revealing to the reader, actions that are unknown to other members of the dramatis personae. We then have the pleasure of witnessing them attempting to account for those actions, misconstruing the consequences and plotting unnecessary counter measures before the truth is revealed and everything turns out for the best.

She also delights in poking fun at the fashions apparently prevalent in those days, but being no expert, I can not tell if this is accurate or caricature. Similarly, some of the dialogue from the "lower classes" is incomprehensible due to its use of slang terms which Georgette Heyer may or may not have made up. It really does not matter!

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Ele

Why does this book have a rating? It's drivel!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 May 2020

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Unfortunately, I got sick of this book part way through but like others felt like I had to finish it.
The highlights are; the beginning, the end and the comical duo, that are Pel & Pom.
The editing is dire with numerous spelling mistakes and poor grammar as well as at least 2 appalling chapters that could have been cut.
*POTENTIAL SPOILERS
The tale starts off being fairly interesting but it's like the author didn't know where to go from there (apart from to give them a happy ending.) The heroine goes from being intelligent and savy, to being brainless, wilful and more irritating than Jane Austen's Emma. Likewise, the hero goes from being dark and brooding but transforms into an over-indulgent fool. The interesting rivally between the hero and villain becomes an absolute farce, with the villain anti-climatically admitting that he had been in wrong.
I'm wondering if the author left this in a drawer to 'brew' for slightly too long and forgot her characters original personalities.
I'm left with the question; how has this book got such a high rating?

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Karen Croan

Historical Romance

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 January 2019

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Georgette Heyer writes witty, clever & historically accurate regency romances, and this is one of the most amusing ones. The characters are well drawn & likeable & there is a bit more action than usual. The language is correct for that period, something that is often missing from new novels of this genre where neither research nor even a nod to the mores & conventions of the time is given. Horatia is one of her most likeable heroines.

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Tolulola

Very disappointing, starts well, but becomes ridiculous mid way through

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 August 2018

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As always her books starts well and funny, but the central story gets silly half way through and becomes quite ridiculous that you want to stop reading it, but you feel obligated to finish it since you’ve already invested time in it

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AMcQ Denny

Good romantic story with some good twists snd characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 February 2021

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Loved the story and characters. Had read when I was a teenager and had forgot title. Started reading some Georgette Heyer books again. Very light reading and find how people lived then. Would recommend as normally read murder mysteries and this made a nice light change. You can actually imagine the dresses wigs etc and feel you are there

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