Book description
Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of
twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest
man in Lord Wellington's army. But at the siege of Badajos, his
friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry meets the
defenceless Juana, a fiery passion consumes him. Under the banner of
honour and with the selfsame ardour he so frequently displays in
battle, he dives headlong into marriage. In his beautiful child-bride,
he finds a kindred spirit, and a temper to match. But for Juana, a
long year of war must follow ...
Georgette Heyer was for over fifty years one of the most prolific,
succesful and best writers of historical romance. In The Spanish
Bride she shows the skill that has won the hearts of a new wide
audience in the twenty-first century.
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.
