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Masqueraders

Masqueraders

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

Summary

If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'One of the wittiest, most insightful and rewarding prose writers imaginable' Stephen Fry
'All hail Georgette Heyer ... devilish good fun' Guardian
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1745: Robin and Prudence Merriot have been adventurers and dissemblers since they were children.


And as escaped Jacobites, they need to be.

Forced to go on the run, they disguise themselves and make their way to London where they witness the abduction of a beautiful heiress.

They rescue her, but in so doing Robin's real identity is revealed, and both he and Prudence find themselves in terrible danger ...
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Readers love Masqueraders . . .

***** 'One of the best books ever. Recommended, over and over again!'
***** 'I am in ecstasy over this book'
***** 'The dialogue in this book absolutely rocks.'
***** 'It's very good fun, and it may be one of my favourite Heyer books so far.'
***** 'One of Heyer's more fantastical stories'

Reviews

  • Wonderful characters, elegant, witty writing, perfect period detail, and rapturously romantic. Georgette Heyer achieves what the rest of us only aspire to
    Katie Fforde

About the author

Georgette Heyer

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 seventeen 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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