A contemporary romance about a naive girl brought up in a Victorian manner, she married very young and is little able to cope with life and marriage in the modern world. One of the four "contemporary" novels Georgette Heyer had suppressed....
In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. When her childhood friend, the golden-haired Cleone Charteris returns from finishing school, her exquisite charms have made ...