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  • Published: 26 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473591660
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download

The Reluctant Widow

Gossip, scandal and an unforgettable Regency romance




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

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

Stepping into the wrong carriage at a Sussex village, Elinor Rochdale is swept up in a thrilling and dangerous adventure. Overnight the would-be governess becomes 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 typically thrilling and sweeping tale of romance and tragedy, The Reluctant Widow is Georgette Heyer at her best - the undisputed queen of historical romance.

  • Published: 26 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781473591660
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: Audio Download

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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Praise for The Reluctant Widow

A writer of great wit and style ... I've read her books to ragged shreds

Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph

My favourite historical novelist

Margaret Drabble

Triumphantly good... Georgette Heyer is unbeatable

India Knight, Sunday Telegraph