The Reluctant Widow
A fateful mistake... When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death. A momentous decision... His cousin, Mr Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry...
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A fateful mistake...
When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death.
A momentous decision...
His cousin, Mr Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry Eustace as a simple business arrangement. By morning, Elinor is a rich widow, but finds herself embroiled with an international spy ring, housebreakers, uninvited guests, and murder. And Mr Carlyon won't let her leave...
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780399106859 (0399106855)
Publish date: 1971-11-28
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
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.
11 years ago
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