Book description
An enchanting debutante and the eldest daughter of an impoverished
country parson, Arabella embarks on her first London season. Armed
with beauty, virtue and a benevolent godmother (as well as a
notoriously impetuous temper) she quickly runs afoul of Robert
Beaumaris, the most eligible Nonpareil of the day. When he accuses her
of being yet another pretty female after his wealth, Arabella allows
herself to be provoked - into a deceitful charade that might have
quite unexpected consequences...
Arabelle is a tale of Regency romance from the creator - and
still the best writer - of this beloved genre.
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.
