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– ‘Real people and real scenes, all characteristically English’ The Spectator

– New York Times bestselling author

– First republication of one of Heyer’s ‘suppressed’ romance novels for almost a century

– ‘Brings history to life… Georgette Heyer is second to none’ The Sunday Times

A tale of two sisters in love with the same man.

Bray Lodge, in one of London’s greener suburbs, is home to Frances and Evelyn Stornaway and their thoroughly respectably parents. Frances feels constantly overshadowed by the younger Evelyn, a flamboyant beauty who’s all quicksilver charm and verve. Frances longs for the aura of glamour surrounding her sister. Is she destined to be the reliable and sensible sibling? But when Frances is introduced to the very eligible and handsome Oliver Fayre at a weekend house-party she believes it is her turn to shine. Then Evelyn meets Oliver…

About the Author

Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists. She was born in Wimbledon, London in 1902, the eldest of three children. A vociferous reader from an early age she wrote her first book to amuse her sick brother, Boris, and it was published in 1921. She would write over fifty more and virtually invented the historical romance genre. She died in 1974.

Praise for Georgette Heyer

‘Perfect craftsmanship’
New York Times

‘My favourite historical novelist – stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty… her sense of period is superb’
Margaret Drabble

‘Brings history to life… Georgette Heyer is second to none’
The Sunday Times

‘One of the great protagonists of the historical novel’
Philippa Gregory

‘Downright delicious… wonderful entertainment from first page to last’
Chicago Sunday Tribune

‘Escapism of the highest order’
The Daily Mail