I suppose its better than not realizing her idiocy at all, but nevertheless, eye-rolling and made me want to smack her upside the head.The Convenient Marriage (Regency Romances) Georgette Heyer on Amazon.
FREE shipping on qualifying offers. Sometimes, only Georgette Heyer will do, and if its one of those times, a huge favourite is The Convenient Marriage. Marcus, Earl of Rule deigns to offer for the hand of the beautiful Elizabeth Winwood, a match that would save her family from penury. If she wanted to show the results of a crazy, manipulative patriarch on his financially dependent and dysfunctional children, then she succeeded. ![]() At first I thought this was going to be one of those stories with bitchy sisters. It took marriagee quite some time to get through this audio book but not because it wasnt delightful. To ask other readers questions about The Convenient Marriageplease sign up. Georhette of her earlier books and set in the Georgian Era, the writing does not yet possess her command of the genre as she shows in later years, yet her descriptive style was already fully developed. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Perhaps she changes later, but Im not mwrriage to w This was my sixth Heyer, and it is simply awful. Its a light-hearted Georgian romp about a very immature young lady who convinces a very rich Earl that he should offer for her instead of for her beautiful older sister; shes actually doing this out of love of her sister, who loves an army captain but was going to Sacrifice herself in a Marriage of Convenience to get the family out of the mess their brother created with his gambling. But there is bad blood between Horrys husband and her new acquaitnance, and as complications and deceptions mount, the social tangle grows ever trickier to unpick. This is basically April Lady except with a more sassy heroine and slightly more interplay between Rule a Horatia Winwood plain, stammers offers herself in place of her lovely, shy sister to the Earl of Rule slyly intelligent for marriage. ![]() Join 6, other followers Search for: Theres a happy cynicism to him. Oh, the Ranelagh pond incident is priceless D Another good read from Heyer. Handsome and elegant Marcus Drelincourt, Earl of Rule, is comfortable in his bachelorhood. Heyer has sold me on big age differences before, but notttt here. Horry proposes a marriage of convenience to Lord Rule with the promise that she will not interfere with him after they are married. The plot of the Convenient Marriage is different in so many ways mqrriage the typical Georgette Heyer novel. And, kind of stupid, because Horry confessed about the ball, but wont explain the missing jewellery even though thats less scandalous and definitely not her fault. After stepping in to offer herself, when the Earl of Rule offers marriage for her sister who loves another. The way GH treats Horrys stutter didnt bother me so much this time around and her sisters are some of the best supporting actress women that GH has ever written.
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