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The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
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The Convenient Marriage (original 1934; edition 2009)

by Georgette Heyer

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"A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds." -Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph

Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family
When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family's happiness. Everyone knows she's no beauty, but she'll do her best to keep out of the Earl's way and make him a good wife. And then the Earl's archenemy, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation...

The Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants
Unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her. There's simply no way he's going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia's harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl routs his old enemy, and wins over his young wife, gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect.

"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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Title:The Convenient Marriage
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The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer (1934)

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I don't typically read romance, but I needed something fluffy, and this definitely fit the bill.

The characters are pretty standard: The bride is young (17), naive, impetuous; the groom is 35, endlessly patient and calm, completely charmed by the girl, and always ready to defend her virtue and rescue her from tricky situations; there's the bride's brother and his cohorts, bumbling gamblers the lot; an evil villain intent on compromising the bride's virtue; and the scorned mistress of the groom, who wants him back.

I didn't find the characters particularly likeable. It was frustrating that the love story readers are expected to root for involves a man who's been having a promiscuous affair with another woman for years, and the affair continues into the marriage. I know characters can't be perfect, but this is a much bigger deal than the author made it out to be. (Essentially, "Boys will be boys.")

Everything about the story was completely unrealistic. However, it was a lot funnier than I expected; that's what kept me reading and why I gave it 3 stars. I'm not opposed to reading more by the same author in the future, but I think I'll need to research which ones are best.

Note: The d* word is used, and God's name is used flippantly. ( )
  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |
It’s quite a mix of frank talk and embarrassment by Horatia. Luckily, most secrets don’t stay secrets for long. ( )
  2wonderY | Mar 31, 2023 |
Horatia Winwood is the youngest and the least attractive of the three Winwood sisters. She also has a stammer. But when the enigmatic and eminently eligible Earl of Rule offers for her oldest sister’s hand – a match that makes financial and social sense, but would break her heart – it is Horatia who takes matters into her own impetuous hands. Can she save her family’s fortune? Or is she courting disaster? Witty, charming, elegant, and always delightful, Georgette Heyer – the undisputed queen of Regency Romance – brings the whole period to life with deft precision and glorious characters. ( )
  Karen74Leigh | Feb 4, 2023 |
Can you tell I'm desperate to finish 2 more books to finish my goal for the year? One more book and 3 days to read it in...
That being said, this was typical Heyer fare. And I finished it in two days!

Her side characters are delightfully hilarious. Pel and Pom had me in stiches. The duality of the stiff moral code makes for wonderful jokes. ( )
  OutOfTheBestBooks | Sep 24, 2021 |
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Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:

"A writer of great wit and style... I've read her books to ragged shreds." -Kate Fenton, Daily Telegraph

Horatia Winwood is simply helping her family
When the Earl of Rule proposes marriage to her sister Lizzie, Horatia offers herself instead. Her sister is already in love with someone else, and Horatia is willing to sacrifice herself for her family's happiness. Everyone knows she's no beauty, but she'll do her best to keep out of the Earl's way and make him a good wife. And then the Earl's archenemy, Sir Robert, sets out to ruin her reputation...

The Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants
Unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her. There's simply no way he's going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia's harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl routs his old enemy, and wins over his young wife, gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect.

"Reading Georgette Heyer is the next best thing to reading Jane Austen."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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When Lord Marcus Drelincourt, Earl of Rule, the most eligible match of Georgian England, offers for the hand of the oldest and prettiest sister of the Winwood Family, he has no notion of the distress he causes his intended. Beauty Lizzie Winwood already is promised to Edward Heron, an also impoverished military, who she loves, but the wealthy Earl of Rule wants her as his wife. Lizzie's younger sister Horatia conceives a dazzling plan to avert a nuptial disaster, and offers herself, since he really wants to marry into this family. He has lots of money but they have an old family line. Everyone knows Horry isn't that beauty and has a stutter, but she'll do her best to keep out of the Earl's way and make him a good wife.

He agree, and dazzling Horatia married the powerful Earl of Rule. Their was a convenient marriage, she was only saving her sister from a loveless match, rescuing her family fortune, and providing herself with a life of ease. Hers was a marriage made not in heaven but in the coolly logical mind of a very self-possessed young. As her new husband's attentions fall elsewhere, Horry begins to feel increasingly unhappy. Then she meets the attractive and dangerous Lord Robert Lethbridge and her days suddenly become more exciting. But there is bad blood between Horry's husband and her new acquaitnance, and as complications and deceptions mount, the social tangle grows ever trickier to unpick.

She suddenly find -- to her own tremulous surprise -- she had fallen deeply in love with the man she had married for money. But was it too late, now that she was but a heartbeat away from betraying both him and herself? Her reputation was about to be ruined. But the Earl of Rule has found just the wife he wants, unbeknownst to Horatia, the Earl is enchanted by her. There's simply no way he's going to let her get into trouble. Overcoming some misguided help from Horatia's harebrained brother and a hired highwayman, the Earl plans to defeat his old enemy, and wins over his young wife, gifting her with a love that she never thought she could expect.
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