Book description
When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South
America on Diplomatic Business he parks his only daughter Sophy on his
sister in Berkeley Square. But Sophy's cousins are in a sad tangle.
The heartless and tyrannical Charles is betrothed to a pedantic
bluestocking almost as tiresome as himself; Cecilia is besotted with a
beautiful but quite feather-brained poet; and Hubert has fallen foul
of a money-lender. It looks like the Grand Sophy has arrived just in
time to save them all ...
The undisputed queen of historical romance shows in Grand
Sophy all the wonderful storytelling that won her a huge, devoted
readership, which continues to this day.
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.
