A Civil Contract
Format: kindle
ASIN: 13035706
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pages no: 432
Category:
Classics,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Adult,
Historical Romance,
Regency,
Regency Romance,
Fiction,
Historical
This review contains some spoilersI know from reading Jennifer Kloester’s excellent biography of Georgette Heyer* that A Civil Contract was not an easy novel for Heyer to write. Before starting work on it, Heyer wrote to a friend that she wanted to write a new kind of novel that would be “neither f...
A masterful job by Georgette Heyer that deserves to be liberated from the "Regency romance" ghetto and considered as serious fiction. It's not really even a romance, given that the main characters marry for money and nothing else. We watch them grow, however, into a sort of love based upon their str...