Cotillion: 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
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times
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Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch.

Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews.

However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted and chivalrous Freddy Standen, to enter into a pretend engagement.

But the more time she spends with Freddy, the more Kitty wonders whether Jack is the right choice after all...
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'Fabulously witty' Stephen Fry
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella
'Wonderful characters . . . rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde
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Readers love Cotillion . . .

***** 'This is a Heyer novel, so of course I expected to enjoy it, but I hadn't planned on falling totally head over heels in love with it!!'
***** 'If I was stranded on a desert island, this would definitely be one of the novels I would want with me!'
***** 'This is one of Heyer's best books featuring one of her very best characters, that of Freddie Standen.'
***** 'Clever, cute, and so light and carefree it practically bounces.'
***** 'Cotillion quickly moved to the top of my favorite Heyer books.'

Ratings and reviews

I love Heyers writing, but I found this book very challenging. The first chapters are increbibly boring and tedious, I almost gave up. I'd recomend skiming the first few chapters before reading the book in earnest. It really is an interesting and lively story after that.

At first, I regretted purchasing this book but luckily I read on. Although predictable, it was delightful , amusing and thoroughly enjoyable. Can't wait to read another Heyer book!

This was the first of georgette heyer's books I ever read and still my favourite. I love the characters and the story line is a joyous romp

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.