A wonderful Regency romance by one of our best-known and most beloved historical novelists, Georgette Heyer.
'When it comes to Regency novels, Heyer was The Master' India Knight
'One of the wittiest, most insightful and rewarding prose writers imaginable' Stephen Fry
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Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge.
When he captures a galleon at sea, and the treasure turns out to be the lovely Dona Dominica de Rada y Silva, he vows to return her and her father to the shores of Spain.
But, upon his immediate return, he proposes another venture; one more reckless than any of his exploits on the high seas which have made him the equal of Sir Francis Drake and a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I.
He will take Dominica as his bride, even if it leads him into peril ...
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READER'S LOVE BEAUVALLET . . .
***** 'There was nothing I didn't love about this tale. Five stars all the way!'
***** 'In a word, wonderful!'
***** 'I loved this story so much!'
***** 'A nail biter, this story is filled with interesting characters and humour.'
***** 'This is one I reread and enjoy often.'
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 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.
Title: Beauvallet
Author: Miss Georgette Heyer
ISBN: 9780099490937
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Publisher: Cornerstone
Publication Date: 2006-01-05
Number of Pages: 272
Weight: 0.1588 kg
Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to -- Katie Fforde
My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and witty. Her sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours -- Margaret Drabble
A writer of great wit and style - I've read her books to ragged shreds -- Kate Fenton * Daily Telegraph *
Sparkling * Independent on Sunday *
Georgette Heyer is unbeatable -- India Knight