Powder And Patch

IF YOU LOVE BRIDGERTON, YOU’LL LOVE GEORGETTE HEYER!’A rollicking good read that will be of particular joy to Bridgerton viewers … the permanent glister of scandal […] ties the whole thing together’ INDEPENDENT'[My] generation’s Julia Quinn’ ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton, in RED’One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer’s books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen’s’ JOANNE HARRIS__________________________In an 18th-century England of wit, womanising and powdered wigs, provincial Philip Jettan runs the risk of irreproachability. Cleone Charteris stands in no such danger. The golden-haired, headstrong despair of men, she seeks a husband who can duel and dice with the best of them. So Philip leaves for Paris, where his father’s hopes and his lover’s ideals are realised but with unforeseen consequences for them both …A peerlessly successful and prolific romantic novelist, Georgette Heyer shows in Powder And Patch what won her a wide, devoted readership that continues to this day.__________________________’Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic’ KATIE FFORDE’Utterly delightful’ GUARDIAN’Fabulously witty’ STEPHEN FRY’Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism’ SOPHIE KINSELLA’Georgette Heyer’s Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining … Escapism of the highest order’ DAILY MAIL’If you haven’t read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!’ HARRIET EVANS’Georgette Heyer is unbeatable.’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH]]>