Unabridged Audiobook
This book is different from ever other Heyer tale, it has a lot more realism than many. There are insights into human dynamics that are very accurate and subtly represented, as the proud (but kind) main character has to marry the daughter of a wealthy man of finance in order to save his family's estate.. I enjoy this Heyer as a change of pace...a good dose of realism, without veering into too much negativity.
This is one of Jane Austen’s more serious Regency novels - not quite so much wit and humour as she writes of a marriage of convenience, and movingly of how love and kindness in this case win over passion. Unfortunately the narrator didn’t give each character a different voice except for Mr Chorley, which sometimes made the narrative a bit flat. Not my favourite novel or recording.
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