Book description
Rejected by the incomparable Miss Milborne for his unsteadiness of
character, wild Lord Sheringham is bent on avenging Fate and coming
into his fortune. But the very first woman he should see is Hero
Wantage, the young and charmingly unsophisticated chit, who has loved
him since childhood ...
Friday's Child is a typically sweeping historical romance by
the queen of the genre, who for fifty years won the hearts of readers
worldwide and has found a new devoted readership in the twenty-first century.
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.
