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Haughty Lady Helen Radney is one of London's most beautiful women, and the daughter of a duke, but her sharp tongue has frightened away most of her suitors. When her father gambles away his fortune, the duke's only chance for recouping his losses lies in marrying off Lady Helen to any man wealthy enough to take a bride with nothing to recommend her but a lovely face and an 800-year-old pedigree.

Enter Mr. Ethan Brundy: once an illegitimate workhouse orphan, now owner of a Lancashire textile mill and one of England's richest men. When he glimpses Lady Helen at Covent Garden Theatre, he is instantly smitten and vows to marry her. But this commonest of commoners will have his work cut out for him if he hopes to win the heart of his aristocratic bride.

©2014 Sheri Cobb South (P)2015 Sheri Cobb South Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Regency Regency Romance Romance England
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My favourite written by this author is the John Pickett mystery series but I did enjoy listening to this one because it was different but still funny.
If you love Georgette Heyer then you will love this book too.
Would highly recommend this to all since it is a clean read.

The weaver takes a wife

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Good story with some very funny moments. Narration not the best but was ok and better when the speed was turned down so it was slower.

Good story!

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Awful narration. I hate Regency read in an American accents. 'Dook' instead of 'duke' etc. he also read far too quickly. Loved the book. Hated the audiobook.

So disappointed

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The author writes very much in the vein of Georgette Heyer and, like her, develops some fascinating characters. Mr Brundy is very sympathetically written, from first thinking he's a clod, like the heroine we learn to appreciate his strengths and end up rooting for them both.

There are some laugh out loud moments and some very moving ones. There is plenty of 'event' along the way, and we learn enough about the leads to leave us speculating about their earlier lives and what will happen to them next.

While there are nods to earlier writers, the originality of the lead characters leaves this feeling fresh. When we do see a little 'beyond the bedroom door', it is deftly handled and helpful to the plot.

The American author uses a plausible back story to give Mr Brundy a generic working class English accent, avoiding the pitfalls of trying to write dialect, and the narrator makes him attractively softly spoken. There are a few American pronunciations of place names, but if the novel is seen as an American homage to an English institution, these become charming too!

Charming Regency tale with likeable leads

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