Book Review: Georgette Heyer’s April Lady
The young Lady Nell Cardross thought it was a marriage of convenience and fills her days with fashion and frivolity. An expensive life that finds the earl wondering if his family was right.
The young Lady Nell Cardross thought it was a marriage of convenience and fills her days with fashion and frivolity. An expensive life that finds the earl wondering if his family was right.
The disguised Penelope Creed, is discovered by Sir Richard Wyndham, a man in need of his own escape, caught climbing from a window in a desperate bid to avoid marrying her fishfaced cousin.
Sensing a misadventure by his twin brother, Evelyn, the Honourable Kit Fancot races home to find his brother has disappeared, his extravagant mother’s debts have mounted alarmingly, and the family honor is at stake.
The elusive Nonesuch, a famed sportsman, has inherited Broom Hall and his arrival has local society in a dither. The dazzling yet selfish Tiffany Wield sets out to charm, as her governess Ancilla Trent attempts to rein her in.
When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer’s home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death.
To win her hand, Philip must become what he despises . . . and he’s determined to make her eat her words.
Stung by an overheard remark, Arabella Tallant boasts of her fortune and the bored Robert Beaumaris decides to launch her into society.
The notorious Duke of Avon, nicknamed “Satanas”, runs into a young boy in a dark Parisian back alley, and he buys Leon, a redheaded urchin with strangely familiar looks . . .
When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophy with his sister, Lady Ombersley, in Berkeley Square. But Sophy’s cousins are in a sad state, and she’s arrived just in time to save them all. But she hadn’t reckoned with Charles Rivenhall, the Ombersleys’ heir, who is very unappreciative of her efforts.
Sylvester, Duke of Salford, has exacting requirements for a bride. Then he meets Phoebe Marlow, a young lady with literary aspirations, and suddenly life becomes very complicated. She meets none of his criteria, and even worse, she has written a novel that is sweeping through the ton and causing all kinds of gossip… and he’s the main character!