The Reluctant Widow: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

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One of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists, Georgette Heyer has captured a whole new audience's heart. When she steps inside the wrong carriage in a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale little knows that she is about to embark on a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes the mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name. By midnight she is a bride; by dawn a widow. A sweeping and romantic tale of romance and tragedy, The Reluctant Widow is Georgette Heyer at her best as a young woman's life is dramatically changed in a single instant. _______ 'Brims with elegance, wit and historical accuracy' Daily Mail 'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris 'Absolutely delicious. Utter immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella

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.

Triumphantly good... Georgette Heyer is unbeatable -- India Knight * Sunday Telegraph * My favourite historical novelist * Margaret Drabble * A writer of great wit and style ... I've read her books to ragged shreds -- Kate Fenton * Daily Telegraph *