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Sophy sets everything right for her desperate family in one of Georgette Heyer’s most popular Regency romances.
When Lady Ombersley agrees to take in her young niece, no one expects Sophy, who sweeps in and immediately takes the ton by storm. Sophy discovers that her aunt’s family is in desperate need of her talent for setting everything right: Ceclia is in love with … setting everything right: Ceclia is in love with a poet, Charles has tyrannical tendencies that are being aggravated by his grim fiancee, her uncle is of no use at all, and the younger children are in desperate need of some fun and freedom. By the time she’s done, Sophy has commandeered Charles’s horses, his household, and finally, his heart.
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This was my first reading of a Heyer book. I loved the characters and fast moving plot and humor and wit!!! No wonder they call her the Queen of Romance Novels!
A delightfully strong woman at the center of this Regency romance–and more satire than romance–has motivated me to move onto my next Heyer after this one!
This was the first Georgette Heyer novel I’ve read. It was so entertaining that I couldn’t put it down. Sophy enters her relatives rather dull lives and proceeds to stir up everything and everyone. She is bold, fearless, extremely kind and often outrageous. It’s impossible not to love her. This was one of the funniest and most enjoyable books I’ve …
If you are reading Georgette Heyer, the mistress of Regency, for the first time, I would suggest starting here.
My favorite for Heyer’s books
I’d never been able to finish any “romance” novel I’d tried to read. A friend advised trying Georgette Heyer, saying “if for no other reason but that her portrayal of the time period and culture she gives is really fun reading, not to mention how much you will learn about the details of living in that time period. For example, various types of …