Book description
This special 2-for-1 edition features The Spanish Bride and
The Convenient Marriage - two of Georgette Heyer's hugely
popular Regency novels.
The Spanish Bride
Shot-proof, fever-proof and a veteran campaigner at the age of
twenty-five, Brigade-Major Harry Smith is reputed to be the luckiest
man in Lord Wellington's army. But at the siege of Badajos, his
friends foretell the ruin of his career. For when Harry meets the
defenceless Juana, a fiery passion consumes him. Under the banner of
honour and with the selfsame ardour he so frequently displays in
battle, he dives headlong into marriage. In his beautiful child-bride,
he finds a kindred spirit, and a temper to match. But for Juana, a
long year of war must follow.
The Convenient Marriage
When the eligible Earl of Rule offers for the hand of the Beauty of
the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his
intended. For Miss Lizzie Winwood is promised to the excellent, but
impoverished Mr Edward Heron. Disaster can only be averted by the
delightful impetuosity of her youngest sister, Horatia, who conceives
her own, distinctly original plans.
Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is one of the best-known
and best-loved of all historical novelists, making the Regency period
her own. Her first novel,
The Black Moth
, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen 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.
