Cotillion

By Georgette Heyer,

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If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer!

'The greatest writer who ever lived' Antonia Fraser
'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' Joanne Harris
'Georgette Heyer is second to none' Sunday Times
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Kitty Charing's life-changing…

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I am a huge fan of Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels, and it is largely because she creates characters that I just cannot forget.

In Cotillion, Freddy Standon is the most unlikely of heroes, being rather quiet, and not all that bright, but he agrees to a fake engagement so that the impoverished heroine, Kitty, can enjoy a season in London. In Kitty’s words “he is the most chivalrous person imaginable.” 

His efforts to keep Kitty out of trouble culminate in him defeating the more typically heroic type, who also wants to marry Kitty (though not for chivalrous reasons) It…

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