Book description
The three great-nephews of cantankerous Mr Penicuik know better than
to ignore his summons, especially when it concerns the bestowal of his
fortune -- the wily old gentleman has hatched a typically freakish
plan for his stepdaughter's future and his own amusement: his fortune
will be Kitty's dowry. But while the beaux are scrambling for her
hand, Kitty counters with her own inventive, if daring, scheme: a sham
engagement which should keep wedlock at bay ...
Cotillion shows what made Georgette Heyer the undisputed
queen of historical romance - one of the most popular novelists of her
day, she is still adored by a huge readership.
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.
