The Convenient Marriage: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Georgette Heyer

May 2010 · 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
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS
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Horry Winwood doesn't play by the rules.

So when her family are near ruin and her sister is about to enter a loveless marriage to a wealthy man to settle the family debts, young and headstrong Horry proposes to marry him in her sister's place.

As her new husband's attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy.

Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting.

But there is bad blood between Horry's husband and her new acquaitnance, and as complications and deceptions mount, the social tangle grows ever trickier to unpick.

Will Horry's gamble cost her everything she holds most dear?
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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
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Readers love The Convenient Marriage . . .

***** 'Another good read from Heyer!!! I absolutely loved the characters!!!'
***** 'Heyer's characterizations just sparkle and shine.'
***** 'Absolutely delightful. As expected, really.'
***** 'I enjoyed this historical romance very much.'
***** 'Splendid comedy, with a charming romance.'

Ratings and reviews

This is a simple, good laugh story. I enjoyed reading it, but to listen to the audiobook narrated by Richard Armitage made it much more fun and enjoyable! His interpretation of the despicable cousin Theresa was the best!

At first you might hate the girl but stick with her and you'll see, she's not that bad

Excellent, fun, unexpected, beautifully written and lively.

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.