Book description
In 1815, beneath the aegis of the Army of Occupation, Brussels is the
gayest town in Europe. And the widow Lady Barbara Childe, renowned for
being as outrageous as she is beautiful, is at the centre of all that
is fashionable and light-hearted. When she meets Charles Audley,
dashing aide-de-camp to the great Duke of Wellington himself, her joie
de vivre knows no bounds - until the eve of the fateful Battle of
Waterloo ...
Georgette Heyer was the creator - greatest practitioner - of the
Regency romance, and An Infamous Army shows why she has won the
hearts of a whole new audience with her sweepily historical fiction.
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.
