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Title: The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer ISBN: 0-373-83445-4 Publisher: Harlequin Pub. Date: May, 2000 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.56 (16 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best of a brilliant bunch!
Comment: I have read and re-read all of my Georgette Heyers every few years since 1973,and shall probably continue to do so for the next 30 or more years.Her dry,acerbic heroes,spirited heroines, and the not-too-bright characters who confuse everything and hence contribute to the plots,all add up to a great read.
I have a long list of Heyer favourites,but the Convenient Marriage tops the list.The Earl of Rule is a perfect hero,Horry isn't such a perfect heroine but very likeable all the same,but the stars of the book would have to be Horry's brother Pelham, and his singularly inept friend Sir Roland Pommeroy,who gamely try,and fail,to rescue Horry from her various scrapes.
Highlights for me are the drunken scene in Half-Moon Street and subsequent confusion at Lord Lethbridge's house;also when Pelham,Sir Roland,and Captain Heron take to the high toby,particularly when Sir Roland attempts to buy a horse from a very irate victim;and when Sir Roland invites Rule to a card party.This last is worth a quote:-
(Sir Roland has gone to Rule's house in a desperate bid to keep him away from a party in Vauxhall Gardens,using a card party,for which he needs a fourth player,as his excuse)
'Now don't say you cannot come!Can't play whisk with only three people,my lord.Most awkward situation!'
'I am sure it must be,'agreed his lordship sympathetically.'And I expect you have tried everyone else.'
'Oh everyone!'said Sir Roland."Can't find a fourth at all.Do beg of your lordship not to fail me!'
.....The Earl appeared to meditate.'I am of course very fond of whisk.'
Sir Roland breathed a sigh of relief.'Knew I could count on you!Beg you will dine first-five o'clock.'
'Who are your other guests?'inquired his lordship.
'Well,to tell you the truth-not quite sure yet,'said Sir Roland confidentially.'Bound to find someone glad of a game.Have it all fixed by five o'clock.'
Rating: 5
Summary: Heyer,Heyer, its laughs all the the way..
Comment: There can be no dearth of fun with Heyer books. But this one beats them all for the hilarious set of madcap sidekick charcters that heyer has brought in. There is the insufferable Drelincourt (the hero Lord Rule's cousin) who suffers the igonomy of having his "elegant" hat thrown off his head by y Sir Pelham because Sir P doesnt like it above half. It is the exchanges between the s-s-tammering H-Horry, the heroine, her brother Perlham and his friend Sir G? which is the tops. A highwayman gets thrown in between and they are joined by Horry's brother-in-law, Capt Heron, who jointo retrieve Horry's heirloom brooch. It is three chapters of infinite fun. I cant help putting down (from memory) the following exchanges :
Pelham has picked up a gun prepared to go and shoot the villain of the piece.
Heron interves : Pel, you madcap, dont be ridiculous. Just give the gun to me.
Sir G - Better let Pel handle it you knw .. an expert shot he is ...
:-))))
Pelham : There goes our plan. (to Heron) So what more do you think we can do ?
heron : Well, short of holding him up, we can just go and wait at his home.
Pel : What a delightful idea.. thats what we will do..we will follow ur idea
Heron : Well, waiting at his home is not the greatest idea but..
Pel : Home ? No,no - we shall hold him up !!
HAHAHHAHA
Just the most marvellous of exchanges...
A must read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Georgian Romp with great secondary characters
Comment: Before Georgette Heyer found the Regency period she wrote Georgians - and this is one of them. The Conveninent Marriage is set in the last couple of decades of the eighteenth century - when coach roads were still muddy morasses, highwaymen lurked on the outskirts of London, and men and women were corseted, laced, fringed, feathered, bewigged, powdered and patched to within in inch of their lives.
The book starts right into the thick of things - The Earl of Rule is looking for a wife and it looks as though he will offer for society beauty, Lizzie Winwood. Lizzie is not enamoured of this idea - she wants to marry some worthy suitor whom she actually loves. Luckily it is her practical, straight talking younger sister, Horatia (better known as Horry) who steps into the fray instead. The interview in which Horry presents the revised plan to the Earl of Rule is hysterical.
Horry is still rather young, and the Earl (who I instantly fell in love with) finds that he needs to rouse himself out of his usual langour to save her from herself. In the midst of all this there is a fiendish plot afoot to break up the marriage, Horry's well-meaning brother Pelham attempting to help Horry, a spare highwayman or two and some good old fashioned romping.
The characters are generally so likeable and fun. The only problem I had is that Horry has a stutter - and they just don't make good reading (I think). A fun, quick read.
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