The Quiet Gentleman: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency historical romance

ISBN-13: 9780099476375 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 320 str.

Georgette Heyer

Opis

Upon meeting his stepmother and young half-brother on his return from Waterloo, Gervase Frant, Seventh Earl of St. Erth, detects open disappointment that he survived the wars. The dangers of the Lincolnshire countryside could never be more unexpected . . .

Recenzje

Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to Katie Fforde

O autorze

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.