These Old Shades: Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance
Feb 2011 · Random House
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If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton
'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' Independent
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Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud.
Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable and ever since Justin has been lying in wait to settle the score.
When Justin meets Leon, a street urchin with a striking resemblance to his nemesis, he aims to use him as a pawn in his plans for revenge on the Comte. Except Leon is in fact Leonie, a beautiful young ingénue who may just steal Justin's heart.
Can Leonie win the Duke's affection, or will his need for revenge overcome them both?
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'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde
'Utterly delightful' Guardian
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella
'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' Daily Mail
'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' Harriet Evans
'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' Sunday Telegraph
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Readers love These Old Shades . . .
***** 'I'm not sure that I can entirely express how much I truly love this book and how absolutely amazing it is.'
***** 'Loved the sharp wit, the intrigue, the characterisation...'
***** 'Oh how I adored this book! Such fantastic characters. I am absolutely in love with Le Duc!'
***** 'I can see why [Heyer] is touted as the best of the best when it comes to historical romance. This book was thoroughly enjoyable.'
***** 'Heyer writes vivid, opinionated characters and she captures the Georgian period beautifully.'
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'[My] generation's Julia Quinn' Adjoa Andoh, star of Bridgerton
'A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers ... the permanent glister of scandal [...] ties the whole thing together' Independent
__________________
Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud.
Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable and ever since Justin has been lying in wait to settle the score.
When Justin meets Leon, a street urchin with a striking resemblance to his nemesis, he aims to use him as a pawn in his plans for revenge on the Comte. Except Leon is in fact Leonie, a beautiful young ingénue who may just steal Justin's heart.
Can Leonie win the Duke's affection, or will his need for revenge overcome them both?
__________________
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde
'Utterly delightful' Guardian
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella
'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' Daily Mail
'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' Harriet Evans
'Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.' Sunday Telegraph
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Readers love These Old Shades . . .
***** 'I'm not sure that I can entirely express how much I truly love this book and how absolutely amazing it is.'
***** 'Loved the sharp wit, the intrigue, the characterisation...'
***** 'Oh how I adored this book! Such fantastic characters. I am absolutely in love with Le Duc!'
***** 'I can see why [Heyer] is touted as the best of the best when it comes to historical romance. This book was thoroughly enjoyable.'
***** 'Heyer writes vivid, opinionated characters and she captures the Georgian period beautifully.'
Ratings and reviews
4.8
33 reviews
Rona Keogh
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January 11, 2019
Delightful adventure from the start. Witty, exciting, romance. For me the tone of the language of the age so beautifully captured by Mrs Heyer renders me agape with admiration. In this respect alone all her imitators pale by comparison.
Sue Atkinson
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July 21, 2019
i first read this book over 50years ago and it is still one of my favourite books. I hunted book shops looking for a copy unsuccessfully and then found it in an e-book along with other Heyer novels. I will enjoy reading many more.
Steph Haigh
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May 12, 2020
One of Georgette Hayers finest, mystery, fun, romance. Excellent.
About the author
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.
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