La carta vincente
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788873390329 (8873390323)
Publish date: April 2005
Publisher: Sperling & Kupfer
Pages no: 313
Edition language: Italian
Cross-Posted on The Dead Writers Society. This will be the one that ends up as my go to recommendation for people who are starting out with Heyer. It used to be The Grand Sophy, but there is that unpleasant anti-semitic streak that runs through it which has led me to be increasingly uncomfortable ...
Charming! I smiled the entire time it took me to read this novel, the battle of the sexes of the first order, set in Regency England. Max is a rich, powerful, and arrogant aristocrat. When he learns that his younger cousin, twenty-year-old Adrian, is in love with a girl from a gaming house, a painte...
A charming read for a night of bad insomnia. Light as a souffle.
I picked this up after reading Mari Ness's review, and am quite glad I did. It's a slim book (~280 pages) which doesn't flag for a minute. The plot: Deb, who works in a gambling house, is the object of the naive Lord Mablethorpe's affections. His cousin Ravenscar tries to bribe her not to marry him....
Max Ravenscar is a gamester and claims that he is uninterested in romance. Deborah Grantham is planning to marry his young cousin Adrian and when they meet sparks fly. Fun read from Heyer.
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