"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."â?Publishers Week … ( more)įalse Colours by Georgette Heyer was a slow moving but intriguing historical romance story that pulled me in from the beginning. I've read her books to ragged shreds."â?Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph When the incorrigible Lady Fancot persuades her son to impersonate his twin (just for one night, she promises) the masquerade sets off a tangled sequence of events that engage Kit's heart far more deeply than he'd ever anticipated with his brother's fiancÃ?©eâ?who might know much more about what's going on than she cares to reveal.
If Evelyn fails to meet the Dowager Lady Stavely in a few days as planned, the betrothal could be off. The Fancot family's fortunes are riding on Evelyn's marriage to the self-possessed Cressy Stavely, and her formidable grandmother's approval of the match. Kit returns to London on leave from the diplomatic service to find that his twin brother Evelyn has disappeared and his extravagant mother's debts have mounted alarmingly. Something is very wrong, and the Honourable Christopher "Kit" Fancot can sense it. Typical sparkling Georgette Heyer, dedicated to her daughter in law Susie.The Queen of Regency Romance, bestselling author Georgette Heyer, charms readers with this delightful romp of mistaken identity. But in the face of Evelyn's continues absence, Kit's ingenuity is stretched to the limit. Kit is forced into an outrageous masquerade by the tangled affairs of his wayward family, his rigid uncle Lord Brumby, the surprisingly wily Sir Bonamy Ripple, the formidable old Lady Stavely and Evelyn's betrothed, Cressy.
The Honourable Christopher Fancot on leave from the diplomatic service in the summer of 1817, is startled to find his entrancing but incorrigibly extravagant mother on the brink of financial and social ruin, and more than alarmed to find that his twin Evelyn, has disappeared without trace.
Some edge wear, chipping, creasing and small loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, price clipped, previous owner's gift inscription o ffep, internally clean tight and almost square, overall a vg+ copy for its age.
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