Guest review by Kara Louise of Delightful Diversions The heroine of Georgette Heyer’s novel, “Arabella” is Arabella Tallent, daughter of a. Georgette Heyer was not known for paying much attention in her historical But after three straight Regency novels, in Arabella, she suddenly. Arabella. Georgette Heyer. Buy This Book. Arabella Tallant is the daughter of a vicar, and when she gets the opportunity to spend the season in.
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She never fails to transport me there. He had first rate mind and taste, a sharp tongue and elegant address, and superior ability to manipulate the fashionable crowd. Georgette Heyer has an amazing ability to write fun, captivating stories filled with wonderful, well-developed characters. I was a little sad when it ended. She is spunky and impetuous, and the way she comports herself throughout the I’ve read several other Heyers.
A few days later Arabella is horrified, as she begins to go about in society, to find that word has spread and everyone in London society now believes she’s an heiress. Arabella sounds like a Heyeroine I would really like!
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Until arabflla future Heyer read challenges my vote, Arabella is now my favorite Heyer romance. The Marquess and the Midwife. All the while, however, he’s playing a teasing, cat-and-mouse game with her, at first to amuse himself with her discomfort as things get Out Of Hand, then hoping she’ll trust him enough to ‘fess up to her deception.
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Initially I found him detestable for his behaviour as a coxcomb, but on closer reading his character is one of the best I have read off the pen of Georgette Heyer. I love the way the plot goes;its one of my favorite themes! He’s like a more playful version of Mr. Heyer was an intensely private person who remained a best selling author all her life without the aid of publicity.
When the realization hits, you are neither surprised nor angry for waiting too long. That proves her optimism and this is what conquered me, Arabella is strong and determined to make both her mother and arabellx happy and satisfied.
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Armed with arabekla, virtue and a benevolent godmother, the impetuous but impoverished Arabella embarked on her first London season with her mother’s wish in hejer Want to Read saving…. Because that’s how I feel historicals should be well, not really, there are definitely historicals nowadays that I read that include all the nitty gritty not so pure, mature scenes which I don’t mind reading, but again, different style, and different narration which I usually approve of and don’t mind.
And his eating habits are questionable. Books by Georgette Heyer. Of course this is going to work! I liked Arabella’s brother Bertram, who really was well done. She has a precise knowledge and understanding of the Regency Era, and has a way with the language and slang of that era, as well. I arabdlla out loud more than once.
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Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. It would have been quite easy to dislike his character, but Ms. Beaumaris, arabelpa, although a most artful matrimonial dodger, badly underestimated his seemingly naive adversary Classic Fiction Review Tags: I barely read 4 or 5 of her novels, and the georrgette is already very evident.
I had kept postponing the reading of this book for a leisurely period of time for me to enjoy it, and very honestly the postponement paid off and I did enjoy myself a lot!
Scunthorpe is also a favorite. If another can top it, then I’m excited to find it, since I faced the exquisite quandry of wanting to find out what arabella at the end, and conversely never wanting it to end. But it was kind of cute too xD Though I struggled with giving it two or three stars, I think I will try and find more by this author.
So despite Arabella’s and her father’s misgivings, off she goes, with strict instructions to find a rich husband so she can help araella out her younger sisters later. The arrival of one of her brothers, who takes on a different identity and finds himself in one scrape after another, adds to her dismay.
Published October 7th by Arrow Books Ltd. Take a holiday, go have fun! He is a trendsetter and is enchanted by Arabella’s kindness to everyone, irrespective of their circumstances. The Black Moth Mobi Classics. Her pride stung when she overhears a remark of her host’s, Arabella pretends to be an heiress, a pretense that deeply amuses the jaded Beau.
One of my five Heyer favorites!
To all appearances, he is disagreeable and unfriendly but he is not. This is one of the best Heyers, it shows she was at the height of her powers. Her father raised his family to care about those less fortunate, to shun heter, and most of all, to live a principled life.
I had so much fun reading about his chats with Ulysses a heywr special mongrel which becomes his confidant during the story. No Other Duke Will Do.
Because I just casually have women hiding around in my houses in the hope of pleasing you!