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  • Published: 11 December 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099468073
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00

The Reluctant Widow

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance




One of the best-known and most beloved historical novelists, Georgette Heyer has captured a whole new audience's heart.

When she steps inside the wrong carriage in a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale little knows that she is about to embark on a thrilling and dangerous adventure.

Overnight the would-be governess becomes the mistress of a ruined estate and partner in a secret conspiracy to save a family's name.

By midnight she is a bride; by dawn a widow.

A sweeping and romantic tale of romance and tragedy, The Reluctant Widow is Georgette Heyer at her best as a young woman's life is dramatically changed in a single instant.

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'Brims with elegance, wit and historical accuracy' Daily Mail

'Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris

'Absolutely delicious. Utter immersive escapism' Sophie Kinsella

  • Published: 11 December 2022
  • ISBN: 9780099468073
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00

About the author

Georgette Heyer

Author of over fifty books, Georgette Heyer is the best-known and best-loved of all historical novelists, who made the Regency period her own. Her first novel, The Black Moth, published in 1921, was written at the age of seventeen to amuse her convalescent brother; her last was My Lord John. Although most famous for her historical novels, she also wrote eleven detective stories. Georgette Heyer died in 1974 at the age of seventy-one.

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