Book description
In an 18th-Century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs,
provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone
Charteris stands in no such danger. The golden-haired, headstrong
despair of men, she seeks a husband who can duel and dice with the
best of them. So Philip leaves for Paris, where his father's hopes and
his lover's ideals are realised but with unforeseen consequences for
them both ...
A peerlessly successful and prolific romantic novelist, Georgette
Heyer shows in Powder And Patch what won her a wide, devoted
readership that 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.
