Book description
Sir Waldo Hawkridge -- wealthy, handsome, eligible, illustrious, and
known as 'The Nonesuch' for his athletic prowess -- believes he is
past the age of falling in love. But when he comes North to inspect
his unusual inheritance at Broom Hall in the West Riding, his arrival
leads to the most entertaining of ramifications ...
Georgette Heyer won the hearts of a huge worldwide readership with
her peerless novels of historical romance - a readership which
continues to this day - and in The Nonesuch, all her
storytelling skills are in eveidence.
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.
