– Kitty Charings verge, den rike Henry Penicuik, har bestemt at hun skal få arve hans formue. Men på en betingelse: Hun må gifte seg med en av grandnevøene hans. Det er bare synd at den eneste av dem hun vil ha ikke er ikke er interessert i å presses inn i ekteskapet. Men Kitty går ikke opprådd lenge, og snart har hun både forlovet seg og dratt til London. Men alt går ikke som hun har planlagt, og nye problemer dukker opp på veien. "Cotillion" er en sjarmerende og vittig bok som tydelig slekter på Jane Austen. Men den står på egne bein, med vidunderlige, morsomme og forvirrede personer, kjærlighetshistorier og en helt som hverken er spesielt kjekk eller handlekraftig, men derimot har god greie på mote. En sann fryd å lese!
Cotillion
«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 "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to" -- Katie Fforde "Charming and comic with plenty of romance" -- Kati Nicholl Daily Express "Georgette Heyer deserves the recognition implicit in her inclusion in the Naxos Classic Fiction list, and Cotillion is an excellent first choice. Her funniest book, it is a plucky-innocent-reforms-rake parody, written in her prime in 1953 ... Heyer immersed herself in 18th-century literature" -- Christina Hardyment The Times»
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!
'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times
'Fabulously witty' Stephen Fry
'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes . . . Utter, immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella
'Wonderful characters . . . rapturously romantic' Katie Fforde
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Kitty Charing's life-changing inheritance comes with a catch.
Her eccentric and childless guardian, Mr. Penicuik, is leaving Kitty all of his vast fortune - but with one condition. She must marry one of his five grand-nephews.
However, Kitty's clear favourite - the rakish Jack Westruther - doesn't appear at all interested in the arrangement. To make Jack jealous, Kitty impulsively convinces his cousin, the kind-hearted and chivalrous Freddy Standen, to enter into a pretend engagement.
But the more time she spends with Freddy, the more Kitty wonders whether Jack is the right choice after all...
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Readers love Cotillion . . .
***** 'This is a Heyer novel, so of course I expected to enjoy it, but I hadn't planned on falling totally head over heels in love with it!!'
***** 'If I was stranded on a desert island, this would definitely be one of the novels I would want with me!'
***** 'This is one of Heyer's best books featuring one of her very best characters, that of Freddie Standen.'
***** 'Clever, cute, and so light and carefree it practically bounces.'
***** 'Cotillion quickly moved to the top of my favorite Heyer books.'
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 336
- ISBN
- 9780099474371
- Utgivelsesår
- 2005
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
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«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 "Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to" -- Katie Fforde "Charming and comic with plenty of romance" -- Kati Nicholl Daily Express "Georgette Heyer deserves the recognition implicit in her inclusion in the Naxos Classic Fiction list, and Cotillion is an excellent first choice. Her funniest book, it is a plucky-innocent-reforms-rake parody, written in her prime in 1953 ... Heyer immersed herself in 18th-century literature" -- Christina Hardyment The Times»