Sylvester: 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
'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT
'My generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton
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Endowed with rank, wealth and elegance, Sylvester, Duke of Salford, is ready to find a bride.

His pursuit of a partner sets him on course to Phoebe Marlow, a young lady who is far more concerned with riding than sewing or beautiful clothes.

With Phoebe struggling to meet her family's demands of gentility and poise, a potential match with Sylvester is exceedingly advantageous. So, it is very intriguing indeed when a visit from her potential suitor causes Phoebe to flee her home.

When the pair meet again and an unexpected adventure ensues, Sylvester comes to realise that there is much more to Phoebe than her reputation affords . . .
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'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS
'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
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Readers love Sylvester ...

***** 'Sylvester reminded me again why I consider Georgette Heyer's novels the high water mark in regency romance.'
***** 'This book has a special place in my heart.'
***** 'After many, many years of reading her books I still cannot fault Georgette Heyer as the best writer of Regency fiction.'
***** 'This is one of my all-time favorite books.'
***** 'This book is SUCH fun! And the CHARACTERS!'

Ratings and reviews

This is Heyer at her finest. A lowly young woman, with nothing to recommend her on the Marriage Mart in Regency England and an insufferable hero who gets insulted by her and decides to teach her a lesson. Lovely secondary characters as well.

Fabulous - witty with a great heroine not like the normal pretty woman.

Gorgeous regency frivolity, told in Ms Heyers wittiest manner

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 fifteen 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.