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 After a year of grand adventures touring the classical ruins of Italy and Greece, Iphiginia Bright returned to England to discover that the real excitement was at home. It seems that her Aunt Zoe has fallen victim to a sinister blackmailer and only Iphiginia can hope to stop the culprit before he can do more harm. Her plan is inspired: Imitating history's most legendary beauties--Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Aphrodite--the former schoolmistress will remake herself, and descend upon London Society as the dazzling mistress of Marcus Valerius Cloud, the infamous Earl of Masters. Rumors hint that the Earl has disappeared at the blackmailer's hands, and by posing as his unknown mistress, Iphiginia is convinced she can ferret out the villain. Overnight, Iphiginia is transformed into a vision with a host of eager admirers, including one she does not expect -- the Earl of Masters himself, who strides into a shimmering ballroom one evening to cooly reclaim his "mistress". He is everything they say he is... arrogant, attractive, devastatingly seductive, and Iphiginia can't help but be enthralled. But when Marcus agrees to play along with her charade, she doesn't know that the determined earl has plans of his own: to tease and tempt her, until the beautiful deceiver becomes more than his mistress in name only.©1994 Amanda Quick; (P)1994 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc. Historical Historical Fiction Regency Romantic Comedy
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I enjoyed reading the book, and bought the audio for listening while on the go. unfortunately the only version of this available to UK is the abridged version, which has cut around 8 hours of the story which is a real shame as it loses the core of it. It's a shame that there are very few other Amanda Quick novels available to UK audiences as well.

Needs an unabridged version

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Only 2 and a half hours of the book and sound quality distorted, I feel cheated as I have read all of Amanda Quick’s books. I did not pay for a Novella.

Short distorted story

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What would have made Mistress better?

The full book. This was very hard to follow

Would you ever listen to anything by Amanda Quick again?

Yes

Have you listened to any of Harriet Walter’s other performances? How does this one compare?

She did not always pronounce things correctly

You didn’t love this book--but did it have any redeeming qualities?

The full book would have been better. I lost track of rvents and did not finish it

Any additional comments?

Dont buy it if you need the full story

Abridged verdion bought by mistake

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Excellent narrator, no jarring pronunciations and definite character voices. I really enjoyed the story and after loads of gory detective novels, this was a perfect antidote!

Another strong minded woman but a lot achieved in a short story!

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