A Civil Contract
Author(s): Georgette Heyer
A brilliant Regency romance full of spirited heroines and dashing heroes, by the queen of the genre.
Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin and the broad acres of his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who tactfully introduces him to Mr Jonathan Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth with no social ambitions for himself, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only daughter.
For more than fifty years Georgette Heyer brought romance and adventure to a wordwide readership and Civil Contarct shows how she continues to be loved today.
General Information
- :
- : Penguin Random House
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.268
- : 01 January 2005
- : 198mm X 129mm X 24mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Georgette Heyer
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : en
- : 823.912
- : 384
More About The Product
A brilliant Regency romance full of spirited heroines and dashing heroes, by the queen of the genre.
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of fifteen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.