A Civil Contract
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A Civil Contract by Georgette Heyer
Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton and a hero at Salamanca, returns from the Peninsula War to find his family on the brink of ruin. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who introduces him to Jonathan Chaleigh, a city man of apparently unlimited wealth, but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter.
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My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and wittyHer sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours. * Margaret Drabble *
Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to. * Katie Fforde *
A writer of great wit and style.... I've read her books to ragged shreds. * Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph *
Georgette Heyer is unbeatable * India Knight *
My favourite historical novelist - stylish, romantic, sharp, and wittyHer sense of period is superb, her heroines are enterprising, and her heroes dashing. I owe her many happy hours. * Margaret Drabble *
Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to. * Katie Fforde *
A writer of great wit and style.... I've read her books to ragged shreds. * Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph *
Georgette Heyer is unbeatable * India Knight *
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099474449 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099474441 |
| Title | A Civil Contract |
| Author | Georgette Heyer |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2005-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 384 |
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