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The Black Moth

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance

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The Black Moth

By: Georgette Heyer
Narrated by: Stewart Clarke
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Brought to you by Penguin.

Georgette Heyer's Remarkable First Novel

Diana Beauleigh is caught between two men.

Seven long years ago, Jack Carstares, the Earl of Wyncham, sacrificed his honour for his brother and has been in exile ever since.

Returning to England, Jack pretends to be a gentleman named Sir Anthony Ferndale but makes his living in a most ungentlemanly fashion, as a highwayman and a gambler.

When Jack encounters his nemesis, the Duke of Andover, in the midst of kidnapping Diana Beauleigh, the two old enemies come to blows.

Can Jack save the beautiful Diana from rakes, kidnap and ruin?

©1921 Georgette Heyer (P)2021 Penguin Audio Classics Historical Historical Fiction Romance

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Brilliant narration. Did lose my place with plot a few times as there are a lot of characters and sub plots but was made easier by narrator's excellent characterisations making it easier to discern them.

Great narration

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Nothing to dislike a wonderful first novel with humour and finesse all her books are so much fun

Amazing

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I looked forward in anticipation to a new audio version of this novel - a novel I know well. An earlier version was very good apart from an intensely irritating voice given to one character and I was hoping that the new recording would be an improvement. Alas, the same character is presented in an equally irritating way in this new version and, in addition, some other characters grate when occasionally they speak with an elongated vowel sound.
This is very picky of me, there is much to enjoy in this version and the story races along with many of the usual ingredients of a Heyer novel. Discovering her novels as a young teenager back in the 1960s was a delight; listening to them again (and again!) as I approach my dotage is equally delightful.

Great story but the narration is flawed in places . . .

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Not one of her best, characters too caricatured. Found the voices of the characters by the reader pretty irritating, made the main character Jack not very likeable, the villain too much and his sister ridiculous. A real shame. I’m missing the old original recordings they are all so much better than these new ones.

Black moth

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loved it and sorry to finish. narration is pitched just right and easy to listen to. thankyou

brilliant book

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