by Georgette Heyer
Really quite a lot of fun, with plenty of snark and sass amid all the spying and mystery shrouding the murders, secret entrances, and other sinister incidents, events, and characters.It had a lot of flaws, no doubt. The worst one being, for me, the failed "romance". Ned and Elinor barely interact at...
Despite the in-story death necessary for the status of widowhood and underlying plot of mysterious treason and breached national security in a time of war, The Reluctant Widow is one of Georgette Heyer's more lighthearted stories.Elinor Rochdale's life first changed when her father took his own life...
A formula that seems to have been borrowed frequently. Woman down on her luck gets into the wrong carriage and instead of being a governess is married and widowed within a few hours. She also finds herself embroiled in some shady goings on with spies and secret passages and trying to save a family...
A formula that seems to have been borrowed frequently. Woman down on her luck gets into the wrong carriage and instead of being a governess is married and widowed within a few hours. She also finds herself embroiled in some shady goings on with spies and secret passages and trying to save a family n...
I usually love Georgette Heyer, but this one fell flat. It started out pretty good but Elinor just isn't the kind of heroine I like, and certainly not one I expect from Heyer. I couldn't summon up too much of an interest in the resolution nor in the romance aspect. Heyer has done much, much better.
Enjoyable, with bits of mystery and intrigue wrapped up in the romance.
The title says it all. In Regency England, a young governess Elinor Rochdale travels to her next position and boards a wrong carriage by mistake. The mayhem that resulted from her misstep has been delighting readers for over fifty years. Thrust into a series of mad escapades against her will, Elino...
Perfectly nice, but not one of her best. There were some delightful characters - particularly Nicholas and Francis, but the mystery didn't really hook me in.
As soon as I started reading I knew this was one of those daft plots that only Georgette Heyer can pull off successfully. When a book starts with a young lady getting into the wrong carriage and going to a bachelor’s house instead of the establishment where she is supposed to become a governess, you...
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