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Harriet’s Beau

by Emily Johnson



      Harriet Mayne has been cursed with two beautiful sisters, a handsome brother and parents who are only interested in their more attractive offspring.  Therefore it is not surprising that she is a sartorial disaster with no polish and a regrettable mop of red hair at a time when it was not in fashion.  What she needs is somebody to take her in hand—but is notorious rake, Ferdinand Andrews the right person to do it?  Time is running out for Harriet, who has until the end of the season to find a husband or be married off to a ghastly old man.

Surely no Regency writer is quite so much like Georgette Heyer as Emily Johnson, aka Emily Hendrickson, and in this book it really shows.  This is a truly good humored tale with a vastly likeable pair of protagonists and lashings of Regency atmosphere.  Everything shows the work of an author who truly knows her history, without visibly turning a sprightly novel into a history lesson.  If you are somebody who thinks they don’t like this sort of thing (possibly for some very good reasons) or who wonders what a quintessential Regency novel is like then I can recommend this.  One of my favorites by this author.

The Book

Robert Hale
31 December 2008
Hardback
0709084110 / 9780709084112
Historical Romance / Regency, London
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The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2009
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