The Spanish Bride: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Georgette Heyer

2/2011 · Random House

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A veteran campaigner at the age of twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest man in Lord Wellington's army.

But at the siege of Badajos, his friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry meets the defenceless Juana, he falls instantly in love.

With the selfsame ardour he so frequently displays in battle, Harry dives happily into marriage. In his beautiful young bride, he finds a kindred spirit: bold and courageous, she is his perfect match.

But for Juana, who chooses to accompany her new husband's army, a long, perilous year of war must follow ...
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Readers love The Spanish Bride . . .

***** 'I'm totally in awe of Georgette Heyer's ability to bring history to life.'
***** 'Her books on the Peninsular War are just... brilliant.'
***** 'Heyer did an amazing job on this one!'
***** 'One of her most exciting books; I couldn't put it down.'
***** 'This book is must read for anyone with a love of period drama, war and romance.'

O autorovi

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.