Thanks to my love of free ebooks, and my recent discovery of what is possibly my spiritual ebook home – girlebooks.com, which specialises in women authors and includes many of my teenage favourites, like Anne of Green Gables, as well as lost Victorian classics, like The Shuttle – I have found a new guilty pleasure... Georgette Heyer.
I am reading The Black Moth, her first novel , published in 1921.
Noble highwaymen, sinister Dukes, duels, wrongly outcast Earls, debts of honour, more duels, kidnapped maidens with sensitively quivering lower lips. Love it.
Deceptively simple, but absolutely captivating. I am totally losing myself in the book on the Tube, and keep having to hastily jump up when I get to my stop. Which is definitely a sign of a good read.
And with such a wealth of period detail which suggests research of an academic level.
Can’t wait to start on the Regency series.
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