Welcome to Litsy!

Elinor Rochdale travels by stagecoach to work as governess for one Mrs Macclesfield. Met by a servant who asks if she is the young lady ‘come down from London in answer to the advertisement‘, Elinor is. packed into the carriage and she is on her way...to the wrong place, where she marries a man she‘s never met, who‘s dead before morning.
That Heyer makes this work is amazing. I loved this gothic comedy of errors, with the best guard dog ever. 🖤

My first Heyer. Will it be the first of many, or the last? Stay tuned.

Let‘s see if I can squeeze in another oldie (a Georgette Heyer 😊) before year end.

Latest audio book on the Heyer Revisit. And it is of my underrated faves - I forget how good it is until I re-read it. It's not as memorably good as Regency Buck/Devil's Cub/These Old Shades/Sylvester but it's very readable - with a emergency marriage, a proper Alpha-y hero who you're not quite sure is the hero or how it's going to work out and then a spy plot and some hijinx with dogs and amusing side characters.

I knew I enjoyed this before, but I'd forgotten 90% of the plot! Edward is, like many of Heyer's romance heroes, rather high handed and sure of himself in a way that is enjoyable to read but goes rather too far for my liking. The banter between him and Elinor is hilarious, though, and poor Nicky is too much fun.

I was so not kidding about needing a nice regency after that SGJ.

Opening line: "It was dusk when the London to Little Hampton stagecoach lurched into the village of Billingshurst, and a cold mist was beginning to creep knee-high over the dimly seen countryside." #thereluctantwidow #georgetteheyer #panbooks #book #bookgnome #firstline #bookcover #bookish