Venetia: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Georgette Heyer

Feb 2011 · Random House

About this ebook

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton
'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' Indepdendent
'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
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In all her twenty-five years, Venetia Lanyon has never been further than Harrogate.

Nor has she enjoyed the attentions of any man aside from her two wearisomely persistent suitors.

Then, in one extraordinary encounter, she meets a neighbour she only knew by reputation - the infamous Jasper Damerel.

Before she realises it, Venetia is encouraging a man whose way of life has scandalised the North Riding for years.
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Readers can't get enough of Venetia . . .

***** 'One of my favorite Heyer romances.'
***** 'One of my all-time favourite books.
***** 'I've read it so many times by now that I lost count.'
***** 'Venetia is, without question, my favourite of all Georgette Heyer’s Regency Romances.'
***** 'I LOVED this book.'
***** 'Stands up well as a charming and quite powerful Regency romance.'
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'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde
'Utterly delightful' Guardian
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella
'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' Daily Mail
'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' Harriet Evans
'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' Sunday Telegraph

Ratings and reviews

A wonderful story. How l love a disreputable hero! The love story between admir'd and spunky Venetia and her disreputable rake is unputdownable. The supporting characters are also beautifully drawn. Find this out for yourself, dear reader. Venetia. One of my favourites

Georgette Heyer has once again written with a great insight into human relationships and how not everyone falls into societies norms naturally or by choice. Together with a fantastic humour making for another great Novel

Very entertaining read! One of the best of this author

About the author

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.