The Reluctant Widow

Author(s): Georgette Heyer

Fiction

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.

General Information

  • : 9780099468073
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Arrow PB
  • : 0.208
  • : 01 January 2004
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Other Specifications

  • : Georgette Heyer
  • : Paperback
  • : New edition
  • : en
  • : 288

More About The Product

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

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 fifteen 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.