April Lady

by Georgette Heyer

Ebook, 2012

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All of my favorite Heyer touches are here — the goofy slang, the comedy of manners, the lavish descriptions of dresses and hats and pantaloons — but the storyline turns on the tired trope of two people in love and sure that the other person does not love them back even though everyone around

them can plainly see it. This of course leads to Misunderstandings which struck me as more rote than romantic. If you are new to Heyer don't start here; try [The Grand Sophy] or [Frederica] instead. If you are already a Heyer fan, this one is worth reading to complete the set.

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Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML: "Graceful and exciting ... the best kind of 'escape' story." -LIBRARY JOURNAL What seems a marriage of convenience... When young newlywed Lady Nell Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the earl has to wonder whether she really did marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. And now Nell doesn't dare tell him the truth ... Is getting trickier all the time... He thought he was marrying for love, but between his concern over his wife's spending sprees, rescuing her impulsive brother from one scrape after another, and attempting to prevent his own half sister from a disastrous elopement, it's no wonder the much�?tried earl can't see where he's gone wrong ... "Georgette Heyer has done it again ... It's the sheer fun of reading on a high entertainment level. For such an experience, April Lady is tops. It's downright delicious." -CHICAGO SUNDAY TRIBUNE… (more)