The Convenient Marriage

When the eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended.For Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the excellent, but impoverished Mr Edward Heron. Disaster can only be averted by the delightful impetuosity of her youngest sister, Horatia, who conceives her own, distinctly original plans ...

'A writer of great wit and style.' -- The Daily Telegraph
'Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to.' -- Katie Fforde, bestselling author of A Summer at Sea

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, making 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. Famous for her historical novels, she also wrote twelve highly acclaimed mystery novels. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one. Caroline Hunt is an actor, director and dramaturg. She trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and is known for The Remains of the Day (1993), Licence to Live (1994) and Doctor Who (1963). She has directed plays for the Bristol Old Vic, the Tobacco Factory, Theatre 503 and the BAC, among others in the West End. Caroline has also worked as a script reader for the Royal Shakespeare Company and Arts Council England, which gave her the experience to start up the writing company CV ONE, which amongst others, commissioned Anthony Minghella’s A Little Like Drowning.

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