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False Colours

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Author: Georgette Heyer  

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One of best-known and most beloved historical novelists captures a whole new audience in a stunning repackage.

When Kit Fancot returns on leave from the diplomatic service, he expects to find his loving family at home waiting for him.Instead, he is startled to find his alluring yet extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin.

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One of best-known and most beloved historical novelists captures a whole new audience in a stunning repackage.

When Kit Fancot returns on leave from the diplomatic service, he expects to find his loving family at home waiting for him.Instead, he is startled to find his alluring yet extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin.

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A wonderful thrilling Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists.If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal ... ties the whole thing together' INDEPENDENT'My generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of BridgertonWhen Kit Fancot returns on leave from the diplomatic service, he expects to find his loving family at home waiting for him.Instead, he is startled to find his alluring yet extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin. Even more shocking, he is informed that his twin brother Evelyn has vanished without a trace.It's not long before Kit realises the true extent of his family's tangled affairs; it's left to him to set things right.But in the face of Evelyn's continued absence, Kit's ingenuity is stretched to the limit . . .'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH_____Readers love False Colours ... 'Love, love, love!!' 'Omigod this book was SO FUN. It was just pure delight and put a smile on my face more than once.' 'Five well-earned stars.' 'Georgette Heyer is the queen of Regency comedy of errors, and this story is one of her best.'***** 'I love this book so much. It's definitely made my top 10 by Heyer list. And the characters! The plot! I love False Colours so much.'

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Critic Reviews

"Sparkling" The Independent "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable" -- India Knight "A writer of great wit and style ... I've read her books to ragged shreds" -- Kate Fenton Daily Telegraph

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About the Author

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.

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Product Details

Publisher
Cornerstone | Arrow Books Ltd
Published
2nd June 2005
Pages
320
ISBN
9780099476337

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